Roland-Garros: Qualifier Gigante advances to second round
The Italian will play the winner of the match between Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 20 seed, in the next round
Matteo Gigante – Imago/Panoramic
Italian qualifier Matteo Gigante won against Lebanese qualifier Benjamin Hassan 6-4, 6-2, 6-0 to advance to the second round of Roland-Garros in Paris on Sunday.
Gigante, ranked No 167, will play the winner of the match between Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 20 seed, next.
Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 56,352,000):
- Fabian Marozsan beat Luca Nardi: 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Frances Tiafoe (15) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q) beat Alex Michelsen (32): 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
- Valentin Royer vs. Daniel Elahi Galan: sunday
- Lorenzo Musetti (8) beat Yannick Hanfmann (Q): 7-5, 6-2, 6-0
- Vit Kopriva vs. Thiago Monteiro: sunday
- Damir Dzumhur beat Thiago Agustin Tirante (LL): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-5
- Pablo Carreno Busta beat Francisco Comesana: 6-2, 7-6 (3), 7-5
- Reilly Opelka beat Rinky Hijikata: 1-6, 6-3, 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (31) beat Zizou Bergs: 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Tommy Paul (12) beat Elmer Moller (LL): 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3, 6-1
- Hamad Medjedovic beat Kamil Majchrzak: 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (2)
- Marton Fucsovics beat Tristan Schoolkate (WC): 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
- Mariano Navone beat Brandon Nakashima (28): 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Novak Djokovic
- Corentin Moutet vs. Clement Tabur
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Federico Agustin Gomez
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Cameron Norrie
- Ethan Quinn vs. Grigor Dimitrov
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Marin Cilic vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Jesper De Jong vs. Francesco Passaro
- Alexander Zverev vs. Learner Tien
- Mattia Bellucci vs. Jack Draper
- Gael Monfils vs. Hugo Dellien
- Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Benjamin Bonzi
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. Joao Fonseca
- Alexandre Muller vs. Jakub Mensik
- Nikoloz Basilashvili vs. Henrique Rocha
- Alexander Bublik vs. James Duckworth
- Alex De Minaur vs. Laslo Djere
- Maximilian Marterer vs. Adam Walton
- Andrey Rublev vs. Lloyd Harris
- Jannik Sinner vs. Arthur Rinderknech
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Ugo Humbert
- Marcos Giron vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Arthur Fils
- Camilo Ugo Carabelli vs. Jaume Munar
- Terence Atmane vs. Richard Gasquet
- Filip Misolic vs. Yunchaokete Bu
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Gabriel Diallo
- Sebastian Ofner vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Karen Khachanov vs. Aleksandar Vukic
- Jacob Fearnley vs. Stan Wawrinka
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Taylor Fritz
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Holger Rune
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Jordan Thompson
- Giulio Zeppieri vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Pablo Llamas Ruiz vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Hugo Gaston vs. Ugo Blanchet
- Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Casper Ruud vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
- Luciano Darderi vs. Sebastian Korda
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Sebastian Baez
- Ben Shelton vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Jenson Brooksby vs. Jaime Faria
- Tomas Machac vs. Quentin Halys
- Kyrian Jacquet vs. Nuno Borges
- Emilio Nava vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
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