On April 9, Monte Carlo Masters officially started. After the first 2 days of competition, the first round of the male single was completed, thereby determining the 32 best names to compete in the second round.
On the second day on the evening of 1ua 11/4, Dominic Thiem had the opening match against Richard Gasquet. After consecutive failures from the beginning of the year, the Austrian tennis player was gradually regaining his form. Before Gasquet, the US Open 2019 champion won easily.
Enter Set 1, Thiem entered the game extremely fast and won 2 consecutive breaks to lead up to 5-0. It was not until Game 6 that Gasquet had the first winning game. After that, the veteran French tennis player accepted to lose the gap 1-6.
Set Set 2, Thiem still owns the game. The Austrian player won the break first in Game 3 and kept the advantage until the end of the set. The set of set 2 is 6-4 in favor of Thiem.
In the end, Thiem won 6-1, 6-4 and officially won tickets to the second round of Monte Carlo Masters 2023. Notably, his next opponent was the potential young player Holger Rune. They will meet tomorrow 12/4.
Meanwhile, Andy Murray had to stop right after the opening match. Encounter the seed No. 14 Alex De Minaur, the former No. 1 in the world lost quickly with a score of 1-6, 3-6.
