Davidovich Fokina, Tiafoe advance in Hamburg

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina continued his impressive season on Tuesday at the Bitpanda Hamburg Open, where he defeated Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-3 to reach the second round at the ATP 500.

The Spaniard is 15-8 against Top 50 opponents this season and reached at least the quarter-finals in his two most recent ATP 500 events in Acapulco (final) and Barcelona (QF). Making his fourth appearance in Hamburg, Davidovich Fokina won 58 per cent of points on Monfils’s second serve, according to Infosys ATP Stats, to improve to 2-0 in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series.

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The 25-year-old has won 22 tour-level matches in 2025, having earned 18 victories in all of 2024. Chasing his maiden tour-level title, the No. 26 in the PIF ATP Rankings Davidovich Fokina will next play Flavio Cobolli after the Italian beat Ukranian lucky loser Vitaliy Sachko 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. Cobolli won his maiden tour-level title on clay in Bucharest earlier this year.

In other action, second seed Frances Tiafoe improved to 10-2 in opening-round matches in 2025 with a 7-5, 6-2 win against Chinese star Buyunchaokete. The American, who advanced to a clay-court tour-level final in Houston in April, will next meet Camilo Ugo Carabelli. The Argentine moved past countryman and seven-time ATP Tour champion Sebastian Baez 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.

Argentine Tomas Martin Etcheverry also advanced on Day 3 in Hamburg, downing countryman Francisco Comesana 7-6(4), 6-3. Big-serving Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard fired 10 aces en route to defeating Alexander Bublik 7-6(6) 6-4. The World No. 32 will play Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second round following the Canadian's 6-3, 6-3 win against Germany's Daniel Altmaier.