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Already up a set, Gregoire jumped to a 3-1 lead
in the second but Tsitsipas won five of the next six games to
take the second set. In the decider, both players held serve,
leaving the match to the tiebreaker. Gregoire couldn't convert
three of his five serves, allowing the Greek to move to the
second round.
Tsitsipas will face Nicolas Jarry of Chile in the second set
after his 6-3, 7-5 defeat of another Frenchman, Corentin Moutet.
Top seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia had a much easier first-round
match on the grass courts, topping Marcos Giron 6-4, 6-3.
Medvedev hit 17 winners against one unforced error, but Giron
also played a clean match, with 23 winners and four unforced
errors.
Awaiting Medvedev in the next round is Serbian Laslo Djere, who
eliminated Germany's Oscar Otte 7-6 (3), 6-3.
Other winners on Monday were Brandon Nakashima over Sweden's
Mikael Ymer 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 and Canada's Denis Shapovalov against
Lloyd Harris of South Africa, 7-6 (1), 6-4.
Cinch Championships
Great Britain's Cameron Norrie, the fifth seed, delighted the
local crowd with a 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over Serbian Miomir
Kecmanovic in the opening round at the Queen's Club in London.
It was Norrie's first match on grass since last July, when he
lost in the semifinals of Wimbledon to Novak Djokovic. He needed
just 85 minutes to advance to the second round after hitting 27
winners -- including eight aces -- against just nine unforced
errors.
Norrie was among three seeded players to win Monday. Lorenzo
Musetti of Italy, the sixth seed, beat Great Britain's Jan
Choinski 6-4, 6-2, and eighth-seeded Francisco Cerundolo of
Argentina dropped Tommy Paul 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4.
Also moving to the second round were Americans Sebastian Korda
and Ben Shelton, Diego Schwartzman of Argentina and Brit Ryan
Peniston.
--Field Level Media
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