Tuesday 6 February 2018

ATP Tour back in 3 tournaments

With the first round of the 2018 Fed Cup being contested this week, the women have been given a rest from The WTA Tour.

The men, however, come back from Davis Cup duties, and the ATP Tour resumes:

- in Montpellier, France for the Open Sud de France

- in Quito, Ecuador for the Ecuador Open

- in Sofia, Bulgaria for the Diema Xtra Sofía Open

Montpellier boasts a field including three top twenty players and all eight seeds bar one ranked in the top forty.

David Goffin, the world number 7, is the top seed.

The top four seeds receive first round byes.

Quito has four of its seeds in the top 50 and the rest in the top 100.

It also has a top ten player, Pablo Carreno Busta (10), as its top seed.

The top four seeds receive first round byes.

Sofía unfortunately doesn’t have its main man, Bulgarian world number four Grigor Dimitrov, in its draw.

However it does have three time Grand Slam title winner Stan Wawrinka, now ranked 15, as top seed.

Four other seeds are in the top 50, the other three in the top 100.

The top four seeds receive first round byes.

The qualifying has finished and a few first round matches from the main draw have been completed on Day One of each tournament.

In Montpellier:

Andrey Rublev (6) defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-4 6-4

Benoit Paire defeated Mischa Zverev 6-4 6-4

In Quito:

Qualifier Andrej Martin defeated Rogerio Dutra Silva 7-5 6-4

Wildcard Corentin Moutet defeated Adrian Menendez-Maceiras 6-4 6-7(5) 6-2

Stefano Travaglia defeated Pablo Andujar 6-4 5-7 7-5

Casper Ruud defeated Carlos Berlocq 7-5 6-0

Victor Estrella Burgos (6) is scheduled to play Thomaz Bellucci in an evening match on Day One.

In Sofia:

Joao Sousa (7) defeated wildcard Dimitar Kuzmanov 7-6(6) 6-1

Lukas Lacko defeated Evgeny Donskoy (8) 6-4 6-4

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