Paris Masters: Cerundolo sets up Rublev clash in round two
Francisco Cerundolo beat Quentin Halys 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Monday. He’ll face No 6 seed Andrey Rublev in the next round

Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo won against French qualifier Quentin Halys 7-6 (5), 6-3 to reach the second round of Paris Masters at the Accor Arena on Monday afternoon.
Cerundolo, ranked No 29, will play No 6 seed Andrey Rublev next.
Paris Masters 1000, other first-round results (Accor Arena, hard, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Richard Gasquet
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Karen Khachanov vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
- Alex Michelsen vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Arthur Fils vs. Marin Cilic
- Jack Draper vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Alex De Minaur vs. Mariano Navone
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Holger Rune
- Ben Shelton vs. Corentin Moutet
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Tommy Paul
- Nuno Borges vs. Alejandro Tabilo
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Fabio Fognini vs. Alexander Bublik
- Ugo Humbert vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Sebastian Baez vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Juncheng Shang vs. Marcos Giron: monday
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Zhizhen Zhang: monday
- Jordan Thompson beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 6-4, 6-4
- Arthur Rinderknech (WC) beat Tomas Machac: 6-7 (3), 5-3 ret.
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Luciano Darderi: 6-3, 6-4