ATP Auckland: Marozsan beats Monfils in third set tiebreak

Hungarian Fabian Marozsan overcame the loss of the second set to defeat French veteran Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4) and reach the second round of the Auckland Open at the ASB Tennis Arena on Monday.

Monfils displayed some of his trademark brand of electric tennis as he saved two matchpoints in the second set tiebreaker and won it 8-6 to push the match into a decider.

The Frenchman then went up a break to lead 5-3 in the third set and served for the match before Marozsan fought back to force another tiebreaker 7-4 which he won to close out the victory in two hours and 35 minutes.

The Hungarian, ranked No 65 in the world and the first from his country to win a main draw match in Auckland since 1973, will face top seed Ben Shelton next.

Auckland ATP 250, other first-round matches (ASB Tennis Arena, hard, USD 739,945):

• Nuno Borges beat Alex Michelsen (Q): 0-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3
• Botic van de Zandschulp beat Christopher Eubanks (5): 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Benjamin Bonzi: 6-3, 7-5
• Luca Van Assche (Q) beat J.J. Wolf: 6-4, 6-2
• Alejandro Tabilo (Q) beat Borna Gojo: 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Daniel Altmaier beat Marcos Giron: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Taro Daniel beat Aleksandar Vukic: 7-5, 7-5
• Arthur Fils vs. Richard Gasquet
• Kiranpal Pannu vs. Max Purcell
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Roberto Carballes Baena

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