Marseille Open: Virtanen stuns Korda to power into second round

Finn Otto Virtanen edged out American Sebastian Korda, the No 5 seed, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-4 to reach the second round of the Marseille Open at the Palais des sports.

Virtanen, ranked No 98, will play the winner of the match between Italian Luca Nardi and German Daniel Altmaier next.

Marseille ATP 250, other first-round results (Palais des sports, hard, most recent results first):

• Hugo Grenier vs. Arthur Gea
• Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Harold Mayot
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Quentin Halys
• Nuno Borges vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Clement Chidekh vs. Zizou Bergs
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Manuel Guinard
• Luca Van Assche vs. Benjamin Bonzi
• Alexander Bublik vs. Richard Gasquet
• Luca Nardi vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Hamad Medjedovic beat Raphael Collignon: 6-3, 6-4