Monte-Carlo Masters: Kecmanovic knocks out Berrettini to reach second round

Miomir Kecmanovic was in impressive form against a fatigued-looked Matteo Berrettini, beating the Italian 6-3, 6-1 to move into the second round of the Monte-Carlo Masters.

Berrettini entered the tournament off the back of winning the Marrakech Open just two days before he was due to play in Monaco.

The quick turnaround was evident throughout as he struggled to match the Serb’s intensity. After such a lengthy spell away from the match court, a deep run in Monte-Carlo after his title-winning exploits was always going to be a tall order.

So it proved to be, as the big-hitting Kecmanovic took full advantage to get his Monte-Carlo campaign off to an excellenet start.

Kecmanovic, ranked No 66, will play Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 9 seed, next.

Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other first-round results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):

• Gael Monfils vs. Jordan Thompson
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: tuesday
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Jack Draper: tuesday
• Sebastian Korda beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 6-1, 6-2
• Roberto Bautista Agut (Q) beat Facundo Diaz Acosta (LL): 6-2, 6-4
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Alex De Minaur (11) beat Stan Wawrinka (WC): 6-3, 6-0
• Ugo Humbert (14) beat Federico Coria (Q): 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Roman Safiullin beat Jaume Munar (Q): 7-5, 6-1
• Karen Khachanov (15) beat Cameron Norrie: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
• Arthur Fils beat Yannick Hanfmann (LL): 6-0, 6-2
• Alejandro Tabilo beat Christopher O’Connell (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (12) beat Laslo Djere: 6-3, 3-2 ret.
• Grigor Dimitrov beat Valentin Vacherot (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Francisco Cerundolo beat Daniel Altmaier (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Sumit Nagal (Q) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 5-7, 6-2, 6-4
• Sebastian Ofner beat Daniel Evans: 6-1, 6-4
• Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Luca Nardi (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Alexei Popyrin beat Corentin Moutet (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Lorenzo Musetti beat Taylor Fritz (13): 6-4, 6-4
• Borna Coric beat Alexander Bublik (16): 6-1, 6-1
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Dominik Koepfer: 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2
• Jan-Lennard Struff beat Sebastian Baez: 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2