Paris Masters: Cerundolo sets up Rublev clash in round two

Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo won against French qualifier Quentin Halys 7-6 (5), 6-3 to reach the second round of Paris Masters at the Accor Arena on Monday afternoon.

Cerundolo, ranked No 29, will play No 6 seed Andrey Rublev next.

Paris Masters 1000, other first-round results (Accor Arena, hard, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):

• Flavio Cobolli vs. Richard Gasquet
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Karen Khachanov vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
• Alex Michelsen vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Arthur Fils vs. Marin Cilic
• Jack Draper vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Alex De Minaur vs. Mariano Navone
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Holger Rune
• Ben Shelton vs. Corentin Moutet
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Tommy Paul
• Nuno Borges vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Fabio Fognini vs. Alexander Bublik
• Ugo Humbert vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Sebastian Baez vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Juncheng Shang vs. Marcos Giron: monday
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Zhizhen Zhang: monday
• Jordan Thompson beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 6-4, 6-4
• Arthur Rinderknech (WC) beat Tomas Machac: 6-7 (3), 5-3 ret.
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Luciano Darderi: 6-3, 6-4