Karen Khachanov has reached the second round at Roland Garros. The 22-year-old Russian was too strong for Andreas Haider-Maurer in the opening round of this year\u2019s second Grand Slam tournament: 7-6(7) 6-3 6-3. The world\u2019s number 38 will play against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the second round. The player from Spain defeated former Roland Garros champion Stan Wawrinka with 6-2 3-6 4-6 7-6(5) 6-3.<\/p>
Gilles Muller didn\u2019t manage to reach the second round in Paris. The Lib\u00e9ma Open titleholder stumbled over Ernests Gulbis. The Latvian reached the semi-final in de French capital in 2014, but this year he had to play in the qualification tournament to reach the main event.<\/p>
Gulbis was too strong with 2-6 6-4 6-4 6-3 for the 29th<\/sup> seed from Luxembourg and will meet Italy\u2019s Matteo Berrettini in the second round.<\/p> Muller can start to prepare for his favourite period of the season. The left-handed serve-and-volley player is at his best on fast courts. After winning the title in Rosmalen last year he reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon after, among others, an epic five sets victory on Rafael Nadal.<\/p> Gasquet<\/strong> Gasquet will play against Malek Jaziri in the second round. The Tunisian needed five sets to defeat Russia\u2019s Mikail Youzhny: 2-6 6-2 6-2 3-6 6-2.<\/p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karen Khachanov has reached the second round at Roland Garros. The 22-year-old Russian was too strong for Andreas Haider-Maurer in the opening round of this year\u2019s second Grand Slam tournament: 7-6(7) 6-3 6-3. The world\u2019s number 38 will play against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the second round. The player from Spain defeated former Roland Garros champion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=5802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions\/5803\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4886\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Home player Richard Gasquet thrashed Andreas Seppi. The 27th<\/sup> seed from France lost only four games to the Italian: 6-0 6-2 6-2.<\/p>