British number one Cameron Norrie claimed a comfortable straight-set victory over qualifier Pavel Kotov to reach the third round of the Barcelona Open.
The world number 13 won 6-1 6-2 in one hour 15 minutes on the clay.
Norrie, 27, broke twice in each set to win his first match against the 108th-ranked Russian.
Britain’s Dan Evans is in action later on Wednesday against Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi.
Norrie, who won a clay-court title at the Rio Open in February, will face either Australia’s Jason Kubler or Italy’s ninth seed Lorenzo Musetti in the next round.
Musetti, 21, produced a shock victory over world number one Novak Djokovic at the Monte Carlo Masters last week before being knocked out by compatriot Jannik Sinner in the quarter-finals.
Fourth seed Sinner reached the third round in Barcelona with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman.
Fellow seeds Alex de Minaur, of Australia, Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov and Canadian Denis Shapovalov also made it through to the last 16.
Meanwhile, Former Crawley Town manager John Yems has had his suspension from football for making racist comments to players extended until 2026 after a successful appeal by the Football Association.
Yems was found guilty of 11 charges of racist abuse in January and admitted one. He was given a 17-month ban.
The 63-year-old’s extended suspension is the longest ban issued to someone in English football for discrimination.
The FA appealed against the sanction on the basis it was “insufficient”.
A report from the disciplinary commission had said comments made by Yems were “not a case of conscious racism”, which the FA said it “fundamentally disagreed” with.
The appeal board upheld the FA’s claim with a subsequent three-year ban issued until January 2026.