Tiafoe, ranked 81st, forced the only break point of the first set in the 11th game with a lob winner but Murray dismissed it with a service winner up the middle and held to 6-5 on a second-serve ace. In the tie-breaker, Tiafoe jumped ahead 5-2 before Murray roared back, saving a set point to reach 6-6 when Tiafoe sent a backhand wide and taking the set two points later on a passing forehand winner. Tiafoe, whose only ATP title came at the 2018 Delray Beach Open, saved a break point with an ace in the fifth game of the second set and took the first break of the match for a 5-3 lead on a backhand drop volley winner before holding to force a third set. The match was played on the National Tennis Center Grandstand court, the event's feature court with no matches until the US Open scheduled at Arthur Ashe Stadium or Louis Armstrong Stadium.

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Other men advancing Saturday included Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, who defeated Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-4, 6-1 in the day's opening match -- the first ATP contest since the tour was shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic in March. When Basilashvili buried a forehand in the net on match point, Auger-Aliassime was at something of a loss, with no crowd to acknowledge the moment. "I actually threw a ball at my coach," said Auger-Aliassime, who usually tosses a ball to a fan after a win. He said the unusual quiet on the court made him even more alert to any stray noise.

"The smallest noise or the smallest movement was even more of a distraction because there was no noise and you just heard every noise or every movement around," he said. "It was weird." On the women's side, Greek 13th seed Maria Sakkari defeated US teen Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-3 in 64 minutes. Sakkari could face 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams in the third round. Sakkari said she didn't find the experience of playing in a large stadium with no fans was less off-putting than she expected. "I thought it would be worse," she said. "Maybe on like a bigger match, like maybe a semi-final or final it's going to feel weird. "But today I was already pumped by myself, and that was more than enough."

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