Barrere’s successful year continues with first round win at Citi Open

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.

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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