Monfils beats Seyboth Wild in front of rapturous home crowd

Frenchman Gael Monfils reached the second round of Roland-Garros by edging out Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Roland-Garros in Paris.

It was a raucous atmosphere on Philippe-Chatrier, where home hope and hugely popular Monfils put in a typically flamboyant performance to delight the Parisian crowd in Monday’s night session.

Monfils, ranked No 37, will play Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 30 seed, next.

Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):

• Novak Djokovic vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert
• Gregoire Barrere vs. Alexander Bublik
• Daniel Evans vs. Holger Rune
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Constant Lestienne
• Roman Andres Burruchaga vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Casper Ruud
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Taylor Fritz vs. Federico Coria
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Luciano Darderi
• David Goffin vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
• Valentin Vacherot vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Nuno Borges vs. Tomas Machac
• Mariano Navone vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Jaume Munar vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Alex De Minaur vs. Alex Michelsen
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Adam Walton
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Daniil Medvedev: monday
• Fabio Fognini beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-1, 6-1, 7-5
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Roman Safiullin: monday
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Thiago Monteiro (Q): 6-2, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
• Denis Shapovalov beat Luca Van Assche: 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Pedro Cachin vs. Tommy Paul: monday
• Frances Tiafoe (25) beat Mattia Bellucci (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-4
• Lorenzo Musetti beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-3, 6-3, 7-5
• Filip Misolic (Q) beat Otto Virtanen (LL): 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
• Francisco Cerundolo (23) beat Yannick Hanfmann: 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
• Pavel Kotov beat Cameron Norrie (32): 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Alexander Zverev (4) beat Rafael Nadal: 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Karen Khachanov (18) beat Sumit Nagal: 6-2, 6-0, 7-6 (5)
• Sebastian Baez (20) beat Gustavo Heide (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Arthur Fils (29): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Jozef Kovalik (LL) beat Marcos Giron: 7-6 (3), 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (9) beat Marton Fucsovics: 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-1
• Jannik Sinner (2) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
• SoonWoo Kwon beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
• Felix Auger-Aliassime (21) beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 6-2, 6-4, 6-4
• Ben Shelton (15) beat Hugo Gaston: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Henri Squire (Q) beat Max Purcell: 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (10)
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Stan Wawrinka beat Andy Murray: 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
• Sebastian Ofner beat Terence Atmane (WC): 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2, 7-5
• Corentin Moutet beat Nicolas Jarry (16): 6-2, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
• Daniel Altmaier beat Laslo Djere: 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 5-7, 7-6 (6)
• Sebastian Korda (27) beat Harold Mayot (WC): 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Fabian Marozsan beat Mikhail Kukushkin (Q): 6-2, 6-2, 6-3
• Kei Nishikori beat Gabriel Diallo (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-5
• Zizou Bergs (Q) beat Alejandro Tabilo (24): 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-2
• Alexandre Muller (WC) beat Luca Nardi: 6-4, 6-1, 6-3
• Richard Gasquet (WC) beat Borna Coric: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-1, 6-2, 6-1
• Maximilian Marterer beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 6-2, 6-0
• Grigor Dimitrov (10) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
• Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3
• Jesper De Jong (Q) beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 3-6, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
• Lorenzo Sonego beat Ugo Humbert (17): 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Pedro Martinez beat Thiago Agustin Tirante: 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Andrey Rublev (6) beat Taro Daniel: 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-5
• Brandon Nakashima beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (WC): 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2