The 22-year-old tennis player from Klaipėda, showing no signs of fatigue after a tough week, confidently defeated the eighth seed Michael Mmoh (ATP-181) from the United States in the first round with a score of 6:3, 7:5.
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The Lithuanian tennis team representative had a slightly harder time in the second set of the match, where the young player was trailing 2:5, but finished simply fantastically – winning the last five games.
28-year-old M. Mmoh is a former world No. 81, having reached the third rounds of the Australian Open and US Open in the past.
For his part, E. Butvilas secured his sixth consecutive victory, and this winning streak came at the perfect time – after a very tough series of seven consecutive losses.
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Currently, the Lithuanian is projected to be ranked 204th in the new ATP rankings, just three spots below his career best (201).
Having secured a prize of 1740 US dollars and 6 ATP ranking points, E. Butvilas will face another American, Daniel Milavsky (ATP-306), in the round of 16.
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