Paris Masters: Ninth seed Fritz books spot in second round

American Taylor Fritz, the No 9 seed, defeated Argentinian Sebastian Baez 6-1, 6-4 to reach the second round of Paris Masters at the Accor Arena on Monday evening – his 54th win of the season.

Fritz, ranked No 10, will face the winner of the match between German Daniel Altmaier and Frenchman Arthur Fils next.

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

• Gael Monfils vs. Francisco Cerundolo
• Ugo Humbert vs. Marcos Giron
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Sebastian Korda vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• J.J. Wolf vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Arthur Fils
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Alexander Zverev
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Benjamin Bonzi
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Dominic Thiem
• Tommy Paul vs. Richard Gasquet
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Lorenzo Musetti: monday
• Jordan Thompson vs. Yoshihito Nishioka: monday
• Botic van de Zandschulp (Q) beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 7-5
• Laslo Djere beat Luca Van Assche (WC): 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-4
• Karen Khachanov (16) 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