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French wild card Gregoire Barrere pulled off
the biggest upset of the day, topping sixth-seeded Hubert
Hurkacz of Poland 6-2, 6-2. Then fellow Frenchman Pierre-Hughes
Herbert beat No. 8 seed Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany 7-6 (3),
6-4.
Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga -- both unseeded -- also
advanced to the Round of 16 by rallying past a pair of
Spaniards. Gasquet beat Marcel Granollers 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4, and
Tsonga topped Pablo Andujar 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Wild card Rayane Roumane was the only person to lose on his home
soil, falling to Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene 6-4, 6-4.
St. Petersburg Open
An upset-free day in Russia saw fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev win
in front of his native fans, taking down Ilya Ivashka of Belarus
4-6, 6-0, 6-4 as the day's only seeded player in action in the
hardcourt tournament.
Other first-round winners included Damir Dzumhur of
Bosnia-Herzegovina -- who topped Serbian Janko Tipsarevic when
Tipsarevic retired trailing 7-5, 3-6, 3-1 -- and Roberto
Carballes Baena of Spain, who defeated Martin Klizan of Slovakia
6-2, 7-5.
Should the seeds hold in Round 2, Rublev would face top seed and
U.S. Open runner-up Daniil Medvedev in an all-Russian
quarterfinal.
--Field Level Media
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