Paris Masters: Djere books spot in second round, defeats wild card van Assche

Serb Laslo Djere advanced to the second round of Paris Masters by edging out French wild card Luca Van Assche 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-4 at the Accor Arena on Monday evening.

This was Djere’s 16th hardcourt win of the year – the same number of wins as he has on clay as well.

Djere, ranked No 34, will face Russian Karen Khachanov, the No 16 seed, next.

Paris Masters, other first-round results (Accor Arena, EUR 5.779.335, most recent results first):

• Marton Fucsovics vs. Alexander Zverev
• Ugo Humbert vs. Marcos Giron
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Sebastian Korda vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Gael Monfils vs. Francisco Cerundolo
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Benjamin Bonzi
• J.J. Wolf vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Arthur Fils
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Dominic Thiem
• Tommy Paul vs. Richard Gasquet
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Taylor Fritz vs. Sebastian Baez
• Jordan Thompson vs. Yoshihito Nishioka: monday
• Botic van de Zandschulp (Q) beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 7-5
• Karen Khachanov beat Max Purcell: 6-4, 6-4
• Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Alexandre Muller (WC): 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Alex De Minaur (13) beat Andy Murray: 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-5
• Alexander Bublik beat Frances Tiafoe (14): 6-3, 6-4
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4
• Nicolas Jarry beat Alexei Popyrin: 7-5, 7-6 (6)
• Roberto Bautista Agut beat Jiri Lehecka: 6-4, 6-2
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Ben Shelton (15): 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3