PARIS, May 22, 2017
Top-seeded Romanian Marius Copil leads the charge of the 128 men, who started to fight for one of 16 spots in the men’s draw at Roland Garros 2017 as the qualifying competition got underway on Monday.
The World No. 93 fought past #NextGenATP star Denis Shapovalov from Canada, winning 6-0, 4-6, 6-2. Copil will next take Ilya Ivashka from Belarus, who beat Kimmer Coppejans from Belgium 6-2, 6-2.
Fourth seed Taro Daniel emerged victorious from the all-Japanese-affair, winning 7-6, 6-0 over Hiroki Moriya. Next up for Daniel will be Matija Pecotic of Croatia.
Photo Gallery Q-Day 1 (by Brigitte Urban & Florian Heer):
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- Reilly Opelka
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- Ruben Bemelmans
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- Benjamin Becker
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- Taro Daniel
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- José Altur
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- Ricardo Ojeda Lara
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- Taro Daniel
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- Hiroki Moriya
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- Oscar Otte
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- Maximilian Marterer
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- Maximilian Marterer
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- Brydan Klein
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- Mirza Basic
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- Andrey Rublev
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- Thomas Fabbiano
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- Stefanos Tsitsipas
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- Bjorn Fratangelo
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- Guido Pella
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- Sergiy Stakhovsky
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- Kenny de Schepper – photo: Brigitte Urban
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- Duckhee Lee – photo: Brigitte Urban
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- Gerald Melzer – photo: Brigitte Urban
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- Ilya Ivashka – photo: Brigitte Urban
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- Stefano Napolitano – photo: Brigitte Urban
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- Santiago Giraldo – photo: Brigitte Urban
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- Dmitry Popko
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- Daniel Munoz de la Nava
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- Reilly Opelka
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- Stefan Kozlov
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- Corentin Moutet
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- Patrick Mouratoglou and Marius Copil
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- Patrick Mouratoglou
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- Borna Coric
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- Kristina Mladenovic
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- Marc Polmans
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- Michael Mmoh
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- Elias Ymer
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- Andrej Martin
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- John Patrick Smith
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- Bradley Klahn
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- Marius Copil
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- Marius Copil
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- Denis Shapovalov
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- Teymuraz Gabashvili
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- Roberto Carballés-Baena
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- Tim Smyczek
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- James McGee
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- Inigo Cervantes
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- Alex de Minaur
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- Salvatore Caruso
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- Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo
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- Leonardo Mayer
