Marseille Open: Van Assche advances to second round
Luca Van Assche edged out Benjamin Bonzi 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7) on Tuesday. He’ll face Italian Lorenzo Sonego, the No 7 seed, in the next round
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Lucky loser Luca Van Assche moved into the second round of the Marseille Open by edging out Benjamin Bonzi 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7) at the Palais des sports on Tuesday.
Van Assche, ranked No 164, will play Italian Lorenzo Sonego, the No 7 seed, next.
Marseille ATP 250, other first-round results (Palais des sports, hard, most recent results first):
- Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Harold Mayot
- Hugo Grenier vs. Arthur Gea
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Quentin Halys
- Nuno Borges vs. Stan Wawrinka
- Clement Chidekh vs. Zizou Bergs
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Manuel Guinard: tuesday
- Alexander Bublik beat Richard Gasquet (WC): 6-4, 6-4
- Daniel Altmaier beat Luca Nardi: 6-2, 6-2
- Lorenzo Sonego beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
- Otto Virtanen beat Sebastian Korda (5): 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Hamad Medjedovic beat Raphael Collignon: 6-3, 6-4
