Frederico Silva got into the game badly, losing the first set 6-4, in just 36 minutes, but managed to react in the second, which won in the tie-break by 7-6 (7-4), in an hour and 11 minutes.
Motivated, the Portuguese player was unstoppable in the third partial, who won 6-1, in 33 minutes, now facing in the second round the Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, 288th in the world hierarchy, who today defeated the Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-2 and 6-0.
The Brazilian competition had only one Portuguese player, after Gastão Elias, 427th world player, was removed by the host Thiago Monteiro, 84th, in two sets, by the 6-3 and 6-2 partials, in a clash that lasted an hour and 20 minutes.
