Barrere’s successful year continues with first round win at Citi Open
Gregoire Barrere defeated Shintaro Mochizuki 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-3 on Monday night. He’ll play No 9 seed Daniel Evans in the next round
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Frenchman Gregoire Barrere beat Japan’s Shintaro Mochizuki 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-3 to advance to the second round of the Citi Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on Monday night.
Qualifier Mochizuki gave a good account of himself, with the world No 200 pushing Barrere to a final set after snatching a tight second set tiebreak 9-7. However, it was Barrere’s clean hitting that made the difference, with the 29-year-old striking 25 winners to 10 unforced errors, compared to Mochizuki’s 34-23 ratio.
Barrere, ranked No 59, will play No 9 seed Daniel Evans next, who had a bye in the first round.
Washington ATP500, other first-round results (Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 2.013.940, most recent results first):
- Kevin Anderson vs. Jordan Thompson
- Lloyd Harris vs. Kei Nishikori
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Zachary Svajda vs. Max Purcell
- Taro Daniel vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Gael Monfils vs. Bjorn Fratangelo
- Marcos Giron vs. Radu Albot: monday
- Mackenzie McDonald beat Diego Schwartzman: 6-3, 6-3
- Liam Broady beat Corentin Moutet: 7-6, 6-4
- Aslan Karatsev beat Kiranpal Pannu (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-1
- Michael Mmoh beat Bradley Klahn (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Yosuke Watanuki beat Yibing Wu: 1-4 ret.
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Maxime Cressy: 6-3, 7-6 (8)
- Juncheng Shang (Q) beat Emilio Gomez: 6-3, 6-3
- Emil Ruusuvuori beat Constant Lestienne: 6-4, 6-4
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