Monte-Carlo Masters 2025 Day 1 & 2 Recap

Measures are ongoing at the Monte Carlo Country Club. Three single matches were played on Sunday in and among the last qualification matches before the main draw started fully on Monday.

Two seeds suffered losses during a cold start to the week at the Principality. Ben Shelton and Felix Auger-Aliassime fell at the first obstacle to Altmaier and Davidovich Fokina.

While there were impressive gains for Berrettini, Giron and the two wildcards: Gasquet and Vacherot. Full results from Sunday + Monday below, plus choose highlights.

Day one and two 2025 Monte Carlo round with 64 results

Tailo tops Wawrinka

There will be no Djokovic vs Wawrinka in Monte Carlo when Alejandro Tabilo came through a Topsy-Turvy fight against the Swiss and recorded a 1-6, 7-5, 7-5 in an entertaining match at Court Rainier III at the Principality.

The 27-year-old Chilean, who lost a heart cutter to Jenson Brooksby in Houston last week, has not had a good time on Clay recently, but he showed resilience to strike back and despite beat a 5-3 lead in the decision, he sealed the victory at his third match point after two hours and 34 minutes.

Wawrinka, Master 2014, which makes his 15th Monte-Carlo look, has taken up some decent victories in recent weeks on the clay. He looked sharp early and overwhelming tabilo with his brands heavy ground stretches.

But Tabilo is a Battle, and the town does not seem to be able to maintain a high level through a match. After letting a 4-5 chance slide, Tabilo held on 6-5 and converted its third match point with a fixed point sport that left Wawrinka Strandad.

Medvedev progress

Daniil Medvedev has not looked much of a hard-judge specialist in recent months, so the transition to Clay can be good and he shook his Miami loss with a shit 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 victory over Karen Khachanov.

Meddy is now out of the top 10 in the ranking but has the wood over his country champion (7-2 h2h after today) and looked ready for a routine victory early and competed for a 5-1 lead in the first set.

But Khachanov is not a pushover on clay, and he began to get out at the top in the longer rally and split himself back to the level of 5-5 before Medvedev, the ship stood and jerked 7-5.

The second set followed a similar script with Meddy who grew to a 4-1, just because Khachanov would win most of the extended rally, which forced a decision by claiming the set 6-4.

In the third, Medvedev found an extra gear and mixed his consistent baseline with smart drip shot to the edge forward. He broke 4-4 and served the match 6-4.

After seaing his victory, Medvedev limped to the net and got the judge to call the coach, where he was treated for cramps in his thigh so he did well to close the last points.

Other matches of notes

Jiri Lehecka missed most of last season’s clay fluctuation with injury, but he looked sharp on his return to the surface in a 6-3, 7-6 (7) victory over Sebastian Korda.

He will now meet Lorenzo Musetti, who arranged a dirty comeback against the Chinese qualifier Buyunchaokete, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Musetti was set and a degradation but found its rhythm and used its one-handed backhand to dictate rally and turn the tide into a two-hour 28-minute slip.

Gael Monfils continues to win, bags a hard-fought 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory over the qualifier Fabian Marozan. The Frenchman is now 6-2 at Masters 1000 event 2025. La Monf is now facing the seventh seed Andrey Rublev, who plays his first match with Marat Safin in his corner.

Daniel Altmaier pulled out 16th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (5), 6-3. Felix has struggled to perform at M1000 level this season, and Altmaier will now meet Richard Gasquet after he beat Arnaldi on Sunday.

Elsewhere, Matteo Berrettini made a solid start and sent Argentine LlaySpecialist Mariano Navone 6-4, 6-4 to set up a match with Sascha Zverev. While Marcos Giron showed that he likes to play Denis Shapovalov and extend his H2H to 3-1 thanks to a 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory.

Former finalist Alejandro Davidovich Fokina struggled back to remove the 11th seed Ben Shelton 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-1. The Spanjolen, runner in 2022, used its heavy top spin and relentless defense to get the job done and won 10 of the last 11 matches to move on, which prevented Shelton from creating a single playing point on his serve for six matches directly from 2-0 in the other.

Highlights

Monte Carlo 2025 Day 3 round of 64 & 32 matches

Round off 64 matches

Round with 32 matches