Guillermo Garcia-Lopez opens in Paris

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and Fernando Verdasco qualified for the second round of the Masters 1000 in Paris, last event of its kind in the season, Santiago Giraldo and imposed respectively Marin Cilic in two debuts.

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez tried twice to be part of the 1000 Paris Masters. In 2007 against Juan Martin del Potro and a year later against Olivier Rochus , was deprived of this target to be eliminated in the first round of the 'Qualy'. In this edition, categorized by ranking for the final table, won his first victory in the Gallic capital to crush Colombia's Santiago Giraldo by an aggregate score of 6-4, 1-6 and 6-4 after two hours and fourteen minutes of play in a clash played on Center Court. The next rival of La Mancha will be French Jo-Wilfred Tsonga , who won the event in 2008. William and Tsonga, numbers 64 and 8 of the ATP rankings, have been measured on four occasions, with a background of 3-1 in favor of the player of Le Mans.

Fernando Verdasco has reached the last three seasons in Paris the second round, looking to enhance the brand private by Andy Murray , Marin Cilic and Gael Monfils respectively. In this edition debuted just before the Croatian, who overcame by a score of 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in one hour and fifty-two minutes. The Spaniard, who also plays the discipline of doubles with Feliciano Lopez , will face the next phase of the Czech Tomas Berdych , which was measured on a dozen occasions, with a background of 8-4 in favor of the Czech, who has won the two games played this season, Australia Open and Beijing.

For the rest of the day included the victory of German Philipp Kohlschreiber over Russian Mikhail Youzhny (6-4, 6-2).