Marseille Open: Zhang reaches second round
Zhizhen Zhang edged out Giulio Zeppieri 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday and will face the winner of the match between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 7 seed, and French wildcard Quentin Halys in the next round
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Chinese Zhizhen Zhang moved into the second round of the Marseille Open by edging out Italian lucky loser Giulio Zeppieri 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4 at the Palais des sports on Tuesday.
Zhang, ranked No 50, will play the winner of the match between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 7 seed, and French wildcard Quentin Halys 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
- 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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