Paris Masters: Paul reaches second round by edging Gasquet in late-night epic

American Tommy Paul, the No 12 seed, reached the second round of Paris Masters by edging out French wild card Richard Gasquet 0-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) at the Accor Arena on Monday evening.

Paul, ranked No 12, will play Dutch qualifier Botic van de Zandschulp next.

This was Gasquet’s 16th appearance in Paris, having made his debut in 2003.

Paul, however, has now won his opening match in the last 15 hardcourt Masters 1000 tournaments.

Paris Masters, other first-round results (Accor Arena, EUR 5.779.335, most recent results first):

• Gael Monfils vs. Francisco Cerundolo
• Ugo Humbert vs. Marcos Giron
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Sebastian Korda vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• J.J. Wolf vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Arthur Fils
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Alexander Zverev
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Benjamin Bonzi
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Dominic Thiem
• Grigor Dimitrov beat Lorenzo Musetti: 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3
• Taylor Fritz (9) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-1, 6-4
• Yoshihito Nishioka (Q) beat Jordan Thompson (LL): 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2
• Botic van de Zandschulp beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 7-5
• Laslo Djere beat Luca Van Assche (WC): 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-4
• Karen Khachanov (16) beat Max Purcell: 6-4, 6-4
• Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Alexandre Muller (WC): 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Alex De Minaur (13) beat Andy Murray: 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-5
• Alexander Bublik beat Frances Tiafoe (14): 6-3, 6-4
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4
• Nicolas Jarry beat Alexei Popyrin: 7-5, 7-6 (6)
• Roberto Bautista Agut beat Jiri Lehecka: 6-4, 6-2
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Ben Shelton (15): 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3