Marseille Open: Davidovich Fokina into second round with 100th career match win
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina edged out Gregoire Barrere 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday. He’ll face the winner of the match between Finn Emil Ruusuvuori and Frenchman Luca Van Assche in the next round
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in Marseille 2024 (Open 13)
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the No 5 seed, edged out Frenchman Gregoire Barrere 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Marseille Open at the Palais des sports on Tuesday afternoon.
It was the 100th match win of his tour career for the Spaniard.
Davidovich Fokina, ranked No 24, will play the winner of the match between Finn Emil Ruusuvuori and Frenchman Luca Van Assche next.
Marseille ATP 250, other first-round results (Palais des sports, hard, EUR 801.335, most recent results first):
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Quentin Halys
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Luca Van Assche
- Sebastian Korda vs. Hugo Grenier
- Jiri Lehecka vs. David Goffin
- Hugo Gaston vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Maxime Cressy vs. Arthur Rinderknech: tuesday
- Tomas Machac beat Andy Murray: 7-5, 6-4
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Giulio Zeppieri: tuesday
- 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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