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David Goffin, associated with Frenchman Lucas Pouille, was eliminated in the 1st round of the doubles at the Montpellier tennis tournament, an ATP indoor hard-surface event with 262,170 euros, Monday in France. The Franco-Belgian pair lost 7-6 (8/6), 3-6 and 10/8 in the super tie-break against the Swedish Andre Goransson and the Dutch David Pel. The meeting lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes.
David Goffin will compete in the second round of singles in Montpellier, where he is seeded N.2. Exempted from the first round, the Liege, 15th in the world, will start against the winner of the Franco-French match Lucas Pouille (ATP 79) and Benjamin Bonzi (ATP 125).
The Belgian number 1 will try to get back in the saddle in the Hérault after a disappointing Australian tour marked by two defeats from the start, against the young Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz (ATP 146), 17, at the Great Ocean Road Open, then especially at the Australian Open against the Australian Alexei Popyrin (ATP 113) after having had four match points.
This is the fourth participation in the Open Sud de France for David Goffin, who remains on an accession in the semifinals last year, beaten 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 by the Canadian Vasek Pospisil , 132nd worldwide at the time.
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