Monaco: Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain upset Gilles Simon 6-3, 7-6 (6) in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Monday.
Bautista Agut closed it out on his fifth match point when the 11th-seeded Frenchman hit a forehand into the net. The Spaniard will play either Florian Mayer of Germany or Benjamin Balleret of Monaco.
In other first-round matches, Jarkko Nieminen of Finland, Nikolay Davydenko of Russia and French pair Benoit Paire and Edouard Roger-Vasselin all won in straight sets.
Milos Raonic beat Julien Benneteau 6-1, 6-4 and Roberto Bautista Agut upset Gilles Simon 6-3, 7-6 (6) in the first round.
Raonic served 15 aces and broke his French opponent three times to set up a match against Jarkko Nieminen, who thrashed Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-2.
Later, ninth-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia will play Horacio Zeballos of Argentina, and No. 12 Milos Raonic of Canada meets Julien Benneteau.
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