Roland-Garros: Shevchenko reaches second round with tight win over Oscar Otte
Alexander Shevchenko edged out Oscar Otte 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (2) on Sunday evening. He’ll play Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 17 seed, in the next round
Russian Alexander Shevchenko edged out German Oscar Otte 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (2) to move into the second round of Roland-Garros at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Sunday evening.
Shevchenko, ranked No 84, was made to work hard for just short of three hours to dispatch the No 120 ranked Otte. Next up, the Russian will face 17th seed Lorenzo Musetti in the second round.
Roland-Garros (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49.600.000, most recent results first):
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Quentin Halys vs. Guido Pella
- Max Purcell vs. Jordan Thompson
- Yoshihito Nishioka vs. J.J. Wolf
- Hugo Gaston vs. Alex Molcan
- Alexander Zverev vs. Lloyd Harris
- Timofey Skatov vs. Grigor Dimitrov
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Elias Ymer vs. Casper Ruud
- Alexander Bublik vs. Giulio Zeppieri
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Hugo Dellien
- Tommy Paul vs. Dominic Stricker
- Michael Mmoh vs. Taylor Fritz
- Richard Gasquet vs. Arthur Rinderknech
- Thiago Monteiro vs. Yannick Hanfmann
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Jaume Munar
- Andrea Vavassori vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard vs. Genaro Alberto Olivieri
- Gael Monfils vs. Sebastian Baez
- Holger Rune vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Jannik Sinner vs. Alexandre Muller
- Luca Van Assche vs. Marco Cecchinato
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Arthur Fils vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Dominic Thiem vs. Pedro Cachin
- Borna Coric vs. Federico Coria
- Filip Krajinovic vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Thiago Agustin Tirante
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Hamad Medjedovic vs. Marcos Giron
- Carlos Alcaraz vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Novak Djokovic vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
- Jack Draper vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Aslan Karatsev
- Stan Wawrinka vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Yibing Wu
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Fabio Fognini
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Taro Daniel
- Ilya Ivashka vs. Alex De Minaur
- Juncheng Shang vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Diego Schwartzman
- Benoit Paire vs. Cameron Norrie
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Lucas Pouille (Q) beat Jurij Rodionov (LL): 6-2, 6-4, 6-3
- Ugo Humbert beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
- Lorenzo Sonego beat Ben Shelton (30): 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Andrey Rublev (7) beat Laslo Djere: 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Corentin Moutet beat Arthur Cazaux (WC): 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
- Lorenzo Musetti beat Mikael Ymer: 7-5, 6-2, 6-4
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Emilio Nava (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-2
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2
- Sebastian Korda (24) beat Mackenzie McDonald: 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
- Nuno Borges beat John Isner: 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (9)
- Jason Kubler beat Facundo Diaz Acosta (LL): 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (5) beat Jiri Vesely: 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7)
- Marton Fucsovics beat Hugo Grenier (WC): 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3
- Thanasi Kokkinakis (WC) beat Daniel Evans (20): 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
- Radu Albot (Q) beat Patrick Kypson (WC): 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
- Karen Khachanov (11) beat Constant Lestienne: 3-6, 1-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3
- Hubert Hurkacz (13) beat David Goffin: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Pedro Martinez (Q): 6-4, 2-6, 0-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Sebastian Ofner (Q) beat Maxime Cressy: 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-2
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