Marseille Open: Auger-Aliassime eases past home hope Halys to make second round
Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Quentin Halys 6-2, 7-5 on Wednesday afternoon and will face Chinese Zhizhen Zhang in the next round
Felix Auger-Aliassime in Basel (Imago/Panoramic)
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 7 seed, moved into the second round of the Marseille Open by beating French wildcard Quentin Halys 6-2, 7-5 at the Palais des sports.
Auger-Aliassime, ranked No 28, will face Chinese Zhizhen Zhang next.
Marseille ATP 250, other first-round results (Palais des sports, hard, EUR 801.335, most recent results first):
- Emil Ruusuvuori beat Luca Van Assche: 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Jiri Lehecka (8) beat David Goffin (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Sebastian Korda beat Hugo Grenier (Q): 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (3)
- Hugo Gaston (Q) beat Denis Shapovalov (WC): 7-5, 1-6, 6-3
- Arthur Rinderknech beat Maxime Cressy (Q): 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-2
- Tomas Machac beat Andy Murray: 7-5, 6-4
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Giulio Zeppieri (LL): 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (5) beat Gregoire Barrere: 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Benjamin Bonzi (WC): 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Roberto Bautista Agut beat Richard Gasquet: 6-3, 7-5
- Lorenzo Musetti (6) beat Maximilian Marterer: 6-4, 6-2
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