Match Report
Dwelling favourites Fils/Mpetshi Perricard clinch opening win in Paris
Skupski/Venus set conflict with high seeds Granollers/Zeballos
October 30, 2024
Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
Arthur Fils and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard clinch doubles victory on Wednesday on the Rolex Paris Masters.
By ATP Workers
Arthur Fils and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard transferred a few of their latest singles type to the doubles courtroom on Wednesday on the Rolex Paris Masters.
The wild card duo downed Jamie Murray and John Friends 7-5, 7-6(6) in a good first-round conflict on the indoor ATP Masters 1000 occasion. Fils, who has received 10 of his previous 12 singles matches, and final week’s Basel champion Mpetshi Perricard hit 11 aces, in response to Infosys ATP Stats, en path to victory of their ATP Tour crew debut.
The 79-minute win was Fils’ second victory of the day in Paris, the place he earlier claimed a singles triumph towards Jan-Lennard Struff. Mpetshi Perricard fell within the singles to Karen Khachanov, however picked himself as much as declare simply the second tour-level doubles match win of his profession. Awaiting Fils and Mpetshi Perricard within the second spherical will likely be sixth seeds Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic.
Additionally on Wednesday, Neal Skupski and Michael Venus bounced again from the frustration of Vienna championship-match defeat with a 6-1, 6-0 victory towards Jean-Julien Rojer and Joe Salisbury. Their subsequent task in Paris is an encounter with the second-placed pair within the PIF ATP Dwell Doubles Groups Rankings, Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos.
Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin had been additionally first-round winners within the French capital. The Mexican-French duo overcame Argentines Francisco Cerundolo and Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-2, 5-7, 10-5. Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin now lead the 2 groups’ Lexus ATP Head2Head collection 2-0.
