38-year-old French Gael Monfils, number 42 in the world, defeated Tuesday against American Alez Michelsen (35) 6-4, 4-6 and 6-3 in the first ATP 250 rotation of Stuttgart (Germany) in the grass.
Michelsen will face German Justin Engel in a cycle of 16, number 281 in the world with 17 years, defeating the Australian James Duckworth (94) 4-6, 6-4 and 7-6 (5).
Monfils faces the beginning of a short period of grass after falling into his second game of Roland Garros against the British Jack Draper. The French did not pass the second cycle in a contest from Miami 1,000 masters (he disappeared by the 16th of the American Sebastian Korda, 23 of the circuit).
His countryman Colentin Moutet, number 91 in the world, defeated Italian Fabio Fognini (117) by 6-4, 6-7 (3) and 6-3, and faces can be seen in the next round with the first favorite of the contest, German Alexander Zverev.
Italian Lorenzo Sonego (45) fell into an exciting match of nearly 3 hours (2:42) by 6-7 (6), 7-5 and 6-4 against the French (47) Quentin Halys, to face the second series, the American Taylor Fritz in rotation of 16.
Canada Denis Shapovalov, who is currently 30 of the world, fell back in no time (he did not win more than two games in a contest from ATP 500 of Acapulco, Mexico) after defeating 6-4, 2-6 and 6-0 by Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (81), playing in Hungarian and 112 of Marton Fucsovics.
Source: La Verdad
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