Hurkacz battles rain & wild card Cazaux in Geneva debut

Hubert Hurkacz lit up the courts on a rainy Tuesday at the Gonet Geneva Open, where he sealed his spot in the second round.

The sixth seed delivered a big-hitting performance to move past French wild card Arthur Cazaux 6-3, 6-4 on his debut at the clay-court ATP 250. Hurkacz, who was forced to sit through a rain delayed morning, hit 17 winners en route to an impressive 77-minute first-round triumph.

“I was waiting, seeing if it was going to rain [or] if it wasn’t,” Hurkacz said of the delay. “We went to the gym in the morning, did some stuff, but didn’t have an opportunity to hit before the match. But with the conditions here today, we just [went] straight out. [I’m] happy with the performance today, it was definitely not an easy match.”

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Hurkacz is fresh from reaching the quarter-finals at the ATP Masters 1000 in Rome, and showed little sign of wear in Tuesday’s clash. The 28-year-old Pole let slip a break lead in the second set, but reeled off four of the final five games to seal victory and improve to 2-0 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Cazaux.

The former No. 6 in the PIF ATP Rankings, Hurkacz triumphed at the last clay-court ATP 250 event he played in Estoril last year, which is his sole title on the surface. He next faces Arthur Rinderknech, who delivered a statement 6-4, 6-2 victory over Miomir Kecmanovic.

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Rinderknech dropped just six of 31 first-serve points, according to Infosys ATP Stats, to earn his first Top 50 win since October last year. Fabian Marozsan was also victorious on Tuesday after he eased past Brazilian qualifier Karue Sell 6-1, 6-1 in just 45 minutes.