Paris Masters: Rinderknech advances to second round as Machac retires

French wildcard Arthur Rinderknech advanced to the second round of Paris Masters when Tomas Machac retired on Monday at the Accor Arena.

Rinderknech, ranked No 60, led 6-7 (3), 5-3 when Machac, ranked No 25, pulled out due to discomfort in achilles tendon.

The Frenchman will play the winner of the match between American Alex Michelsen and Pole Hubert Hurkacz, the No 12 seed, 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
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Luciano Darderi: 6-3, 6-4

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