Swan, who is ranked 158th in the ATP rankings and placed fourth in the tournament, defeated 17-year-old Czech Dalibor Svrčin, who is in the 852nd position, with the result 6-4, 6-1.
Svrčina is the winner of last year’s Australian Open Championship Junior Doubles Tournament.
Achieving the second round gives Swan ten ATP ranking points.
There he will meet with Russian Aslan Karacev (ATP 1406) or Czech Tomas Machach (ATP 246). It was Karacev who stopped Gulbi in the previous two Challenger tournaments in Prague.
This “Challenger” competition for Gulbi is the first official tournament since the Davis Cup duel with Egypt, which took place in Latvia at the beginning of March. At the end of July, he participated in the Estonian-Latvian match in Tallinn, winning both singles and doubles.
Before the Davis Cup, Swan triumphed in France in the Po “Challenger” tournament, winning his fifth title and the first since 2007. Also at the beginning of the year, he successfully competed in the Australian Open, where he qualified and competed until the third round.
This season, Gulbis has gone to ATP level in 24 games, where he has won 18 games.
Swan is expected to take part in another Challenger series in the Czech Republic.
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