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Prime two seeds Andrey Rublev and Felix Auger-Aliassime will headline second-round motion in Montpellier on Wednesday. They are going to kick off their weeks with respective showdowns towards Chris Eubanks and Arthur Cazaux.(1) Andrey Rublev vs. Chris EubanksRublev wants a productive week within the worst manner. The 27-year-old is 0-2 up to now this season and on a five-match shedding streak courting again to the Nitto ATP Finals. He’s 1-7 in his final eight matches courting again to the Basel quarterfinals. At No. 10 on this planet, Rublev is at risk of quickly falling out of the highest 10 for the primary time since September of 2022.
Up first for the Open Occitanie high seed on Wednesday following a first-round bye is a second matchup with Eubanks. Their solely earlier encounter got here on the 2024 Australian Open, the place Rublev rolled 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Eubanks didn’t come near backing up his breakthrough 2023 marketing campaign, as he compiled an 11-19 main-tour report final season and is down at No. 111 within the rankings. The previous Georgia Tech standout did effectively to beat Alibek Kachmazov on Tuesday, however Rublev–even in his present state–is a completely completely different form of opponent.
Choose: Rublev in 2
Arthur Cazaux vs. (2) Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime and Cazaux can be going head-to-head for the third time of their careers and for the second time already this season. They only confronted one another in Adelaide, the place Auger-Aliassime prevailed 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 on his technique to the title. He beat Cazaux in a third-set tiebreaker at this identical Montpellier event final yr, too, additionally within the second spherical.
