Monte-Carlo Masters: Auger-Aliassime falls to Altmaier in opening match
Daniel Altmaier beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Monday afternoon and will play French wildcard Richard Gasquet in the next round

German qualifier Daniel Altmaier advanced to the second round of the Monte-Carlo Masters by beating Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 16 seed, 7-6 (5), 6-3 at Monte-Carlo Country Club on Monday.
Altmaier, ranked No 84, will play French wildcard Richard Gasquet next.
Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other first-round results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 6.128.940, most recent results first):
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Arthur Fils
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Ugo Humbert
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Corentin Moutet
- Tomas Machac vs. Sebastian Baez
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Grigor Dimitrov
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
- Holger Rune vs. Nuno Borges
- Fabio Fognini vs. Francisco Cerundolo
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Ben Shelton
- Alexandre Muller vs. Camilo Ugo Carabelli
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Karen Khachanov
- Mariano Navone vs. Matteo Berrettini: monday
- Yunchaokete Bu vs. Lorenzo Musetti: monday
- Gael Monfils beat Fabian Marozsan (Q): 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
- Marcos Giron beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Alejandro Tabilo beat Stan Wawrinka (WC): 1-6, 7-5, 7-5
- Jiri Lehecka beat Sebastian Korda: 6-3, 7-6 (7)
- Jordan Thompson beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 6-4, 6-3
- Valentin Vacherot (WC) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 6-2, 6-1
- Richard Gasquet beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-3, 4-6, 6-4