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AFP, Rhode Island

American Donald Young got off to a rousing start at the 385,0000 dollar Hall of Fame Tennis Championship by registering an opening round win on Monday.

Young, 18, was bounced in the first round of Wimbledon and was looking to make it into the second round of a tournament for the first time since the Tunica Resorts clay event on May 8.

The sixth seed, who was the only seeded player in action on Monday, posted a 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 victory over South Korean Woong-Sun Jun.

With the third set tied at 3-3, Young broke Jun after the South Korean double faulted and held serve until the end of the match.

Young will face Alexander Peya in the next round. The unseeded Austrian was a three-set winner over Phillip Petzschner on Monday.

Other unseeded winners included Mikhail Ledovskikh, Brendan Evans, Vincent Spadea and Rohan Bopanna.

The top four seeds all received byes in the grass event, which includes top seed Mardy Fish and second seed Fabrice Santoro, who is the defending champion here.

Santoro had defeated Nicolas Mahut, who is seeded third, in straight sets last year.