Paris (AFP)
The young Hugo Gaston, revelation of the last Roland-Garros, was no match for the first round of the Masters 1000 at Paris-Bercy against the Spaniard Pablo Carreño Busta (15th), winner 6-3, 6-2 in just over an hour on Monday.
Gaston, 20 years old and 161st in the world, had shone at Roland Garros, exceptionally postponed to the fall because of the Covid-19, by defeating Stan Wawrinka in the third round, then by pushing the N.3 world Dominic Thiem to 'in the fifth set in the round of 16.
Benefiting from an invitation to join the main draw and thus play his very first Masters 1000 match, the young Toulouse player led 2 games to 0 at the very start of the game against Carreño, before his opponent finally took control of the match. .
Gaston may have dismissed five match points, the sixth was good for the Spaniard.
Carreño will face the German Jan-Lennard Struff (35th) for a place in the round of 16.
The three other French who entered the competition on Monday, Ugo Humbert, Corentin Moutet and Benjamin Bonzi, climbed to the second round.
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