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yMarseille Open: Gasquet squeezes into second round
Richard Gasquet edged out Laurent Lokoli 7-6 (5), 2-6, 7-6 (5) on Tuesday evening and will play Swiss Stan Wawrinka in the next round
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No 7 seed Richard Gasquet edged out qualifier Laurent Lokoli 7-6 (5), 2-6, 7-6 (5) to move into the second round of the Marseille Open at the Palais des sports de Marseille on Tuesday evening.
Gasquet, ranked No 43, will face Swiss Stan Wawrinka next.
Marseille ATP250, other first-round results (Palais des sports de Marseille, hard, EUR 707.510, most recent results first):
- Arthur Fils vs. Roman Safiullin
- Mikael Ymer vs. Radu Albot
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Leandro Riedi
- Alexander Ritschard vs. Pablo Andujar: tuesday
- David Goffin (6) beat Lukas Klein (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Maxime Cressy (5) beat Geoffrey Blancaneaux (WC): 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4)
- Gregoire Barrere beat Marc-Andrea Huesler (8): 6-3, 6-2
- Gijs Brouwer (Q) beat Elias Ymer: 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Stan Wawrinka beat Zizou Bergs: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-4
- Benjamin Bonzi beat Luca Van Assche (WC): 7-5, 7-5
- Alexander Bublik beat Filip Krajinovic: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
