After a more complicated season in terms of results compared to 2023, Luca Van Assche launched his NextGen ATP Masters with a victory.
Aged 20 and semi-finalist of the tournament in 2023, the native of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Belgium beat the Chinese Shang Juncheng (50th), whom he faced for the first time.
Van Assche won 4-3 (7/3), 2-4, 4-1, 4-3 (7/5) in the first match of the red group of the NextGen Finals, where the first player to win four games wins the set (in the event of a tie at 3-3, a tie-break decides between the two players).
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The second match of the red group will pit the Americans Alex Michelsen (41st) and Nishesh Basavareddy (138th) in the afternoon.
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The highest ranked player in the tournament (20th), French tennis number 2 Arthur Fils will enter the fray in the evening against the Brazilian Joao Fonseca (145th), who beat him in February in Rio de Janeiro during their only confrontation , played on clay.
