The first seed to act on Monte Carlo Masters 1,000the Polish Hubert Hurkacz (10), emerged from the tangle that his rival, the Serbian, had put him under this Sunday Laslo Djereto win in three sets with three tiebreaks after three hours and 18 minutes of play.
The Wroclaw tennis player, twelfth in the world, won the return of 6-7(5), 7-6(5) and 7-6(5) after winning a match point against the third quarter. The champion in Marseille this season, the sixth title of his career, will face his fourth appearance in the Monegasque tournament.
Quarterfinalist in 2022, eliminated by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, Hurkacz will meet in the second round against the winner of the clash between Argentine Sebastian Báez and British Jack Draper.
Hurkacz’s victory completed the first day of the Monte Carlo Masters 1000, which featured three matches in the first round of the main draw. In addition to the Pole, the Spaniard Jaume Munar and the Chilean Nicolás Jarry passed the first stage.
Munar resisted the Swiss thrust Marc Andrea Huesler and reached the second round for the second time in his career where he will meet Russian Andrey Rublev, fifth seed.
The Spaniard beat Huesler, 48 in the ATP ranking, whom he had never faced, for 7-6(3), 4-6 and 6-4 after two hours and 57 minutes of meeting.
Munar faces his third participation in Monte Carlo. He reached the second round in 2019, eliminated by the Croatian Borna Coric and last year, after passing the previous stage, he fell in the first section with the Argentine Federico Delbonis.
Previously, the Chilean Nicholas Jarry made his debut with a victory in the Monte Carlo Masters 1000, at the start of the dirt season, by losing Coric to reach the second round.
The tennis player from Santiago, holder of two titles, one of them this year, in the tournament in his hometown, won the 6-2 and 6-3 in 78 minutes the Balkan player lowered his performance on clay.
Jarry, playing in the Monte Carlos tournament for the first time, will face the winner of the match between Serbian Dusan Lajovic and Australian Alexei Popyrin, coming from the previous stage, in the second round.
Source: La Verdad
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