Cilic, Albot Among Early Paris Winners

Croatia’s Marin Cilic booked his place in the Rolex Paris Masters second round on Monday with a 7-6(5), 6-4 victory over Hubert Hurkacz of Poland in one hour and 38 minutes. Cilic, who reached his first ATP Tour semi-final of the season two weeks ago at the VTB Kremlin Cup (l. to Rublev), will next play No. 16 seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in the second round.

Moldova’s Radu Albot avenged his recent loss to Nikoloz Basilashvili at the Rolex Shanghai Masters with a 6-3, 6-2 win over 72 minutes. He now challenges Italian lucky loser Andreas Seppi, who came into the main draw after 2011 champion Roger Federer, last week’s Swiss Indoors Basel titlist, pulled out.

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