- Seeds out: (2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 23, 26, 27, 30.)
Second seed Adam Pavlasek was the highest casualty of the first round of French Open Qualifying. The twenty-two year-old Czech fell to Germany’s Daniel Masur 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
It has been a torrid start to 2017 for Pavlasek, who has only once won back-to-back matches at one tournament this year. He reached the semi-finals of the Ostrava Challenger.
Of the eight French wildcards in Qualifying all but two suffered first round exits. Gleb Sakharov and Maxime Hamou progressed, but Gregoire Barrere, Geoffrey Blancaneaux, Jonathan Eysseric, Calvin Hemery, Constant Lestienne, and Corentin Moutet all fell. Moutet gave a strong showing against American Stefan Kozlov.
Top seed Marius Copil was in action on Monday and the Romanian seemed in control after winning the first seven games against Denis Shapovalov. The Next Gen star rallied to take the second set before Copil eventually won 6-0, 4-6, 6-2.
Third seed Facundo Bagnis was forced to retire from his match with Nicolas Jarry when trailing 2-5. Fourth and fifth seeds Taro Daniel and Norbert Gombos both won their respective matches in straight sets against Hiroki Moriya and Jason Jung.
In-form Thomas Fabbiano’s winning streak ended at ten when he lost to Tatsuma Ito. This week he kept the losing streak going with his second first round exit by losing 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 to Stefanos Tsitsipas. Seventh seed Henri Laaksonen followed by crashing out to American Dennis Novikov 6-2, 6-3.
Eighth seed Marco Cecchinato and Ninth seed Santiago Giraldo both recorded straight sets wins against Ricardo Bellotti and Grega Zemlja.
Tenth seed Alessandro Giannessi secured his place in round two of qualifying with a straight sets win over Calvin Hemery, but eleventh seed Lukas Lacko lost 6-4, 6-2 to Canada’s Steven Diez.
There is no place in the second round for twelfth seed Andrej Martin, who lost 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to Swed Elias Ymer. In form Marton Fucsovics knocked out fourteenth seed Darian King 6-4, 6-2. Casper Ruud will feature after the nineteenth seed defeated Yannick Reuter 6-3, 6-2.
Gerald Melzer took a welcome win against Constant Lestienne, and French veteran Paul-Henri Mathieu shrugged off his wildcard snub to beat Tatsuma Ito 6-7, 6-2, 6-2. Young Korean Duckhee Lee suffered an early exit when he was beaten by Spain’s Ricardo Ojeda Lara.
