Monte-Carlo Masters: Auger-Aliassime advances to second round, will play Alcaraz next

Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime reached the second round of the Monte-Carlo Masters by defeating Italian qualifier Luca Nardi 6-2, 6-3 at Monte-Carlo Country Club on Monday.

It is Auger-Aliassime’s first Top 100 win on clay since 2022 Roland-Garros, and only his second win at Monte-Carlo, following a first-round win back in 2019.

Auger-Aliassime, ranked No 35, will play No 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz next.

Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other first-round results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):

• Sebastian Korda vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Gael Monfils vs. Jordan Thompson
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Jack Draper
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Marcos Giron
• Alex De Minaur vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Karen Khachanov vs. Cameron Norrie
• Federico Coria vs. Ugo Humbert
• Laslo Djere vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Arthur Fils vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Roman Safiullin vs. Jaume Munar
• Valentin Vacherot vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Sumit Nagal: monday
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Sebastian Ofner beat Daniel Evans: 6-1, 6-4
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Corentin Moutet: monday
• Lorenzo Musetti beat Taylor Fritz (13): 6-4, 6-4
• Borna Coric beat Alexander Bublik (16): 6-1, 6-1
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Dominik Koepfer: 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2
• Jan-Lennard Struff beat Sebastian Baez: 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2