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Paris Masters: First Round
Due to a quirk, Tobia Alberti was not seeded(17th, top 16 get a bye) and his first singles match in two months comes in the first round. Basically his only chance to qualify is to win the tournament and have several others lose their first match. As it happened, he drew one of the toughest matchups he could have; 20th-ranked Sava Cirakovic. Alberti was bageled in the first set and went on to lose 6-0, 4-6, 6-3. So that's that -- it was expected to happen quickly but not necessarily this fast. He's gone, and the list of players competing for the final pair of spots is cut from nine to eight; almost all of them have now learned who their first foe will be.
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