Dane Holger Rune, the No 5 seed, defeated Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 7-6 (7), 6-3 to advance to the third round of the Toronto Masters at the Aviva Centre on Tuesday.

Rune served 12 aces to Mpetshi Perricard’s 7 and was especially dominant on his own service games, winning 87% of points on his first serve and 86% behind his second. Notably, he did not face a single break point during the 76-minute contest.

In contrast, Mpetshi Perricard, despite his reputation for a huge serve, was less effective, especially in key moments, including two costly double faults that contributed directly to losing both the first set (in the tie-break) and a pivotal game in the second set.

Statistically, Rune even edged Mpetshi Perricard on second serve points (Rune 85.7% vs. Mpetshi Perricard 57.1%). This serving performance allowed Rune to keep the Frenchman under constant pressure and ultimately secured his spot in the third round, reversing the result from their previous encounter, which Mpetshi Perricard had won last year in Basel.

Rune, who played his first match of the US season after his withdrawal at Washington, will next face Alexandre Muller who defeated Miomir Kecmanovic.

In the previous round of the Rogers Cup, Mpetshi Perricard, ranked No 45, won against Japanese qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki (6-4, 6-2).

Toronto Masters 1000, other second-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 9.193.540, most recent results first):

Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Taylor Fritz



Fabian Marozsan vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime

Francisco Comesana vs. Alex De Minaur

Arthur Fils vs. Pablo Carreno Busta

Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Christopher O’Connell

Mackenzie McDonald vs. Jiri Lehecka

Gabriel Diallo vs. Matteo Gigante

Tristan Boyer vs. Jakub Mensik

Brandon Nakashima vs. Ethan Quinn

Frances Tiafoe vs. Yosuke Watanuki

Yunchaokete Bu vs. Lorenzo Sonego

Adrian Mannarino vs. Ben Shelton

Flavio Cobolli vs. Alexis Galarneau

Aleksandar Vukic vs. Cameron Norrie

Andrey Rublev vs. Hugo Gaston

Alexander Zverev vs. Adam Walton

Denis Shapovalov vs. Learner Tien

Daniil Medvedev vs. Dalibor Svrcina

Roman Safiullin vs. Casper Ruud

Reilly Opelka vs. Tomas Machac

Tristan Schoolkate vs. Matteo Arnaldi

Nuno Borges vs. Facundo Bagnis

Jaume Munar vs. Francisco Cerundolo

Nicolas Arseneault vs. Alexei Popyrin

Tallon Griekspoor vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry

Lorenzo Musetti vs. James Duckworth

Karen Khachanov vs. Juan Pablo Ficovich: tuesday

Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Alex Michelsen: tuesday

Alexandre Muller vs. Miomir Kecmanovic: tuesday

Emilio Nava (Q) beat Terence Atmane (LL): 6-2, 7-5