Nagal advances to second round, first Indian player to win main-draw match in Monte-Carlo

Indian qualifier Sumit Nagal edged out Italian Matteo Arnaldi 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Monte-Carlo Masters at Monte-Carlo Country Club on Monday.

The third Indian player in the Open Era to play in the Monte-Carlo main draw, he is the first to record a match win there.

It is the third Top 50 win of his career, and he is now the first Indian man to win an ATP Masters 1000 match on clay since the series began in 1990.

Nagal, ranked No 93, will face No 7 seed Holger Rune next.

Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other first-round results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):

• Sebastian Korda vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Gael Monfils vs. Jordan Thompson
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Jack Draper
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Marcos Giron
• Alex De Minaur vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Roman Safiullin vs. Jaume Munar
• Karen Khachanov vs. Cameron Norrie
• Federico Coria vs. Ugo Humbert
• Arthur Fils vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Christopher O’Connell: monday
• Laslo Djere vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas: monday
• Grigor Dimitrov (9) beat Valentin Vacherot (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Francisco Cerundolo beat Daniel Altmaier (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Sebastian Ofner beat Daniel Evans: 6-1, 6-4
• Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Luca Nardi (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Alexei Popyrin beat Corentin Moutet (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Lorenzo Musetti beat Taylor Fritz (13): 6-4, 6-4
• Borna Coric beat Alexander Bublik (16): 6-1, 6-1
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Dominik Koepfer: 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2
• Jan-Lennard Struff beat Sebastian Baez: 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2