Montpellier Open: Barrere knocks out Blanchet to reach second round
Gregoire Barrere beat Ugo Blanchet 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday afternoon and will face the winner of the match between Russian Alexander Shevchenko, the No 6 seed, and qualifier Dalibor Svrcina in the next round
Grégoire Barrère – © Astana Open
Gregoire Barrere advanced to the second round of the Montpellier Open by beating qualifier Ugo Blanchet 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-2 at the Sud de France Arena.
Barrere, ranked No 104, will play the winner of the match between Russian Alexander Shevchenko, the No 6 seed, and qualifier Dalibor Svrcina next.
Montpellier ATP 250, other first-round results (Sud de France Arena, hard, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Dalibor Svrcina
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Gael Monfils
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Constant Lestienne
- Pablo Llamas Ruiz vs. Richard Gasquet
- Maximilian Marterer vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Hugo Gaston vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Harold Mayot vs. Lucas Pouille: tuesday
- Alexandre Muller (7) beat Antoine Escoffier (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Pedro Martinez beat Jaume Munar: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Benoit Paire beat Andy Murray (5): 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Michael Mmoh beat Benjamin Bonzi: 6-3, 7-5
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