Dubai Open: Humbert beats Monfils to avenge Doha loss
Ugo Humbert won against Gael Monfils 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday and will play Andy Murray in the next round
Ugo Humbert in Toronto, 2023
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No 5 seed Ugo Humbert moved into the second round of the Dubai Open by beating wildcard Gael Monfils 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Tuesday.
Monfils has just beaten Humbert last week in the Dona quarter-finals in straight sets but Humbert avenged that loss to improve to 3-1 in their career head-to-head.
Humbert, ranked No 18 in the world and the current French No 1, will face former world No 1 Andy Murray next.
Dubai ATP 500, other first-round matches (Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 2,941,785):
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (8) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
- Hubert Hurkacz (3) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6)
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Abdullah Shelbayh (WC): 7-5, 2-0 ret.
- Andrey Rublev (2) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4
- Alexander Bublik (7) beat Tomas Machac (Q): 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Andy Murray beat Denis Shapovalov: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Botic van de Zandschulp beat Adrian Mannarino (6): 7-6 (3), 7-5
- Sebastian Korda beat Pavel Kotov: 6-0, 6-2
- Sumit Nagal vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Alexander Shevchenko
- Jakub Mensik vs. Borna Coric
- Maximilian Marterer vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Luca Van Assche vs. Karen Khachanov
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Marton Fucsovics
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