{"id":950251,"date":"2026-11-02T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950251\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:36:16","slug":"tennis-atp-rolex-paris-masters-2026-molcan-beats-droguet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950251\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, ATP \u2013 Rolex Paris Masters 2026: Molcan beats Droguet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Droguet the second French player out in Paris on Monday<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Droguet\u2019s defeat follows that of Kyrian Jacquet, beaten by Machac earlier on Court 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennismajors.com\/atp\/rolex-paris-masters-1000-atp\/the-masters-1000-with-the-best-atmosphere-van-assche-beats-navone-for-first-paris-win-865053.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Van Assche<\/a> remains the only French winner of the day, with Ugo Humbert closing the night session against Botic van de Zandschulp.<\/p>\n<p>Rolex Paris Masters 2026 first-round results<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lorenzo Musetti d. Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (10)<br \/>Luca Van Assche d. Mariano Navone 6-3, 7-5<br \/>Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Learner Tien (15) (Tuesday)<br \/>Novak Djokovic (10) vs Valentin Vacherot (Tuesday)<br \/>Rinky Hijikata (Q) d. Luciano Darderi 6-2, 6-2<br \/>Andrey Rublev vs Tomas Martin Etcheverry (Tuesday)<br \/>Cameron Norrie d. Matteo Arnaldi 6-4, 1-6, 6-3<br \/>Mattia Bellucci (Q) d. Lorenzo Sonego (Q) 6-4, 6-3<br \/>Arthur Rinderknech vs Francisco Cerundolo (16) (Tuesday)<br \/>Tommy Paul (12) vs Holger Rune (PR) (Tuesday)<br \/>Daniel Merida d. Sebastian Baez (LL) 6-4, 6-2<br \/>Quentin Halys vs Arthur Fery (Tuesday)<br \/>Jan-Lennard Struff (SE) vs Arthur Gea (WC) (Tuesday)<br \/>Casper Ruud d. Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q) 6-3, 6-2<br \/>Rafael Jodar (9) d. Alejandro Tabilo 6-2, 6-3<br \/>Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (13) vs Moise Kouame (WC) (Tuesday)<br \/>Denis Shapovalov vs Karen Khachanov (Monday)<br \/>Ignacio Buse d. Zizou Bergs 6-2, 6-4<br \/>Tomas Machac (Q) d. Kyrian Jacquet (WC) 7-6 (7), 6-1<br \/>Alex Molcan (Q) d. Titouan Droguet (WC) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4<br \/>Benjamin Bonzi (Q) vs Taylor Fritz (11) (Tuesday)<br \/>Brandon Nakashima (14) vs Matteo Berrettini (Tuesday)<br \/>Ugo Humbert vs Botic van de Zandschulp (Monday)<br \/>Alex Michelsen vs Jiri Lehecka (Tuesday)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Droguet the second French player out in Paris on Monday Droguet\u2019s defeat follows that of Kyrian Jacquet, beaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-950251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}