Paris Masters: Griekspoor books spot in second round
Tallon Griekspoor beat Luciano Darderi in straight sets on Monday and will play Alexander Zverev in the next round
Tallon Griekspoor Citi Open 2023 (Federico Pestellini/Panoramic)
Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor beat Italian Luciano Darderi 6-3, 6-4 to move into the second round of Paris Masters at the Accor Arena on Monday.
Griekspoor needed less than an hour to finish Darderi’s resistance, as he smashed 19 aces and converted two break points.
The Dutchman finished with a total of 28 winners, averaging an impressive 97 percent on first-serve points.
Griekspoor, ranked No 39, will face No 3 seed Alexander Zverev next.
Paris Masters 1000, other first-round results (Accor Arena, hard, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Richard Gasquet
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Karen Khachanov vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
- Alex Michelsen vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Arthur Fils vs. Marin Cilic
- Jack Draper vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Alex De Minaur vs. Mariano Navone
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Holger Rune
- Ben Shelton vs. Corentin Moutet
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Tommy Paul
- Nuno Borges vs. Alejandro Tabilo
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Fabio Fognini vs. Alexander Bublik
- Ugo Humbert vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Sebastian Baez vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Juncheng Shang vs. Marcos Giron
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Quentin Halys vs. Francisco Cerundolo
- Jordan Thompson vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
- Tomas Machac vs. Arthur Rinderknech
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