The Spanish Alexander Davidovich successfully began his journey through the Monte Carlo Masters 1,000 by beating the American Mark Giron 7-5 and 6-3 to advance to the second round, in which he will face Serbian Novak Djokovic.
Davidovich it took an hour and 39 minutes to beat the American, with whom he had never played.
This is the second participation of Davidovich in Monte Carlo. Last year he reached the quarterfinals, where he was beaten by the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
The Spaniard, 45 in the world and with the Doha quarterfinals as his best record so far this season, will face Tuesday, in the second round, against Djokovicwho returns to the competition after being eliminated at the end of February by the Czech Jiri Vesely in the Dubai tournament.