Monfils beats Montreal champ Popyrin, to face Alcaraz in Cincinnati

Frenchman Gael Monfils reached the second round of the Western & Southern Open by defeating Australian Alexei Popyrin 7-5, 6-3 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Wednesday afternoon.

Monfils, ranked No 46, will play second seed Carlos Alcaraz next.

Papyri was coming off the biggest title of his career at the Montreal Masters and had just one day of rest in between tournaments.

Cincinnati Masters 1000, other first-round matches (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):

• Jack Draper beat Jaume Munar (Q): 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Max Purcell (WC) beat Tomas Machac: 6-4, 7-6 (1)
• Holger Rune (15) beat Matteo Berrettini (WC): 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Nuno Borges (Q) beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (9) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Fabian Marozsan beat Corentin Moutet (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Arthur Fils beat Brandon Holt (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Brandon Nakashima (WC) beat Taylor Fritz (11): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
• Yoshihito Nishioka (Q) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-4, 7-5
• Lorenzo Musetti (14) beat Nicolas Jarry: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)
• Ben Shelton (12) beat Reilly Opelka (WC): 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
• Jordan Thompson beat Ugo Humbert (13): 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Alex Michelsen (Q) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
• Jiri Lehecka beat Mariano Navone: 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Frances Tiafoe beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 6-3, 7-6 (6)
• Luciano Darderi beat Alejandro Tabilo: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Sebastian Baez beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (6)
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Karen Khachanov beat Francisco Cerundolo: 6-0, 6-3
• Flavio Cobolli beat Tommy Paul (10): 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Sebastian Korda

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