Chilean qualifier Tomas Barrios Vera edged out Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3) to reach the second round of the Toronto Masters at the Aviva Centre on Sunday evening.
He saved four match points in the third set before winning the tie-break 7-3. “I saved many match points in the third set. It was super tight. I just tried to fight every point. In these conditions, it’s super hot and fast, I tried to serve very well and win many points on return.”
Toronto Masters 1000, other first-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 9.193.540, most recent results first):
Arthur Rinderknech vs. Alexis Galarneau
Corentin Moutet vs. Jenson Brooksby
Liam Draxl vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
Fabian Marozsan vs. Hugo Dellien
Borna Coric vs. Matteo Gigante
Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Camilo Ugo Carabelli
Tristan Boyer vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
Marcos Giron vs. Adrian Mannarino
Francisco Comesana vs. Damir Dzumhur
Tristan Schoolkate vs. Joao Fonseca
Mattia Bellucci vs. Hugo Gaston
Aleksandar Vukic vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
Yosuke Watanuki vs. Daniel Altmaier
Alexander Blockx vs. Luciano Darderi
Dan Martin vs. Jaume Munar
Mackenzie McDonald vs. David Goffin
Vit Kopriva vs. Yunchaokete Bu
Ethan Quinn vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
Christopher O’Connell vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
Juncheng Shang vs. James Duckworth
Facundo Bagnis vs. Vasek Pospisil
Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Quentin Halys
Emilio Nava vs. Zizou Bergs
Nicolas Arseneault vs. Valentin Royer
Roman Safiullin vs. Ugo Blanchet: sunday
Jacob Fearnley vs. Juan Pablo Ficovich: sunday
Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: sunday
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 6-4, 6-2
Learner Tien beat Colton Smith (Q): 6-4, 7-5
Reilly Opelka beat Sebastian Ofner: 7-6 (6), 7-5
Adam Walton beat Benjamin Bonzi: 4-6, 6-0, 6-3