Monte-Carlo Masters: Bautista Agut sets up Ruud battle
Roberto Bautista Agut won against Brandon Nakashima 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday afternoon and will play No 4 seed Casper Ruud in the next round
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Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut beat American Brandon Nakashima 6-2, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Monte-Carlo Masters at the Monte-Carlo Country Club on Tuesday.
Bautista Agut, ranked No 52, will play No 4 seed Casper Ruud next.
Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other first-round results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 6.128.940, most recent results first):
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Arthur Fils
- Tomas Machac vs. Sebastian Baez
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Corentin Moutet: tuesday
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Flavio Cobolli: tuesday
- Nuno Borges beat Holger Rune (10): 6-2, 3-0 ret.
- Alexei Popyrin beat Ugo Humbert: 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Grigor Dimitrov (15) beat Nicolas Jarry: 6-3, 6-4
- Pedro Martinez Portero beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
- Francisco Cerundolo beat Fabio Fognini (WC): 6-0, 6-3
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Ben Shelton (11): 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-1
- Daniil Medvedev (9) beat Karen Khachanov: 7-5, 4-6, 6-4
- Alexandre Muller beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Matteo Berrettini beat Mariano Navone (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Lorenzo Musetti (13) beat Yunchaokete Bu (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Daniel Altmaier (Q) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (16): 7-6 (5), 6-3
- 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 (WC) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
