Finalist last year, Pierre-Hugues Herbert qualified on Tuesday for the second round of the Open 13 in Marseille. And the Frenchman (30) was not unhappy to have avoided the trap set by the Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin (7-6 [5], 7-5). Because “P2H” was badly embarked in both sets.
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Broken from his first face-off and led 3-0, he was able to come back in the first set and obtain the right to play a tie-break where he was able to raise the level of his game. Bis repeated in the second where he dropped his serve in the first game. Once again, Herbert was able to come back, helped by a Kukushkin diminished by a blocked hip.
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