Cameron Norrie slipped to a straight-sets defeat in opposition to Karen Khachanov within the opening spherical of the Monte Carlo Masters.
Norrie, taking part in on clay for the primary time since February, began effectively and struck with the primary break of the match however finally went down 7-5 7-6 (3).
Khachanov broke straight again within the opening set and toppled the Norrie serve once more at 6-5 to keep away from a first-set tie-break. Each gamers broke one another firstly of the second set and Norrie seemed once more to be in management when he went 5-3 forward.
However as soon as once more Khachanov broke again when it mattered and took the tie-break 7-3.
Dan Evans suffered a straight-sets defeat to Sebastian Ofner as his struggles firstly of the clay-court season continued. Evans’ second match on the floor this time period was over rapidly after he was blown away by the Austrian.
The British quantity three dropped the primary 4 video games en path to a 6-1 6-4 defeat.
Evans had misplaced his first clay-court match of the season in straight units to Roberto Carballes Baena on the Grand Prix Hassan in Marrakech final week.