Britain’s Kyle Edmund has been beaten in the first round of the ATP indoor event in Cologne – his third straight opening-round defeat at a tournament.
The world number 47 lost 6-4 6-0 to Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka, who is ranked nine places lower, in Germany.
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Nishioka broke in the fifth game of the first set, before sweeping through the second as Edmund struggled on serve.
He will face either German seventh seed Jan-Lannard Struff or Italy’s Marco Cecchinato in the next round.