Rojer-Tecau Set Doubles Date With Top Seeds

Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau will meet top seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers after getting their Coupe Rogers campaign off to a winning start on Tuesday. The Dutch-Romanian pair eked out a narrow 7-6(7), 7-5 victory over Mexican Santiago Giraldo and American Donald Young.

Rojer and Tecau have split their two FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings with the Finnish-Australian duo. They defeated them in their most recent clash this year, en route to the title in Dubai in March.

Spanish compatriots Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer denied home hopefuls Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil 46, 6-4, 10-2. The unseeded pair ended Nestor’s bid to claim an elusive Coupe Rogers doubles crown in Montreal.

Twice before Nestor had claimed the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Toronto (2000 with Lareau, 2008 with Zimonjic) but never had he triumphed in Montreal. Bautista Agut and Ferrer will next face No. 6 seeds Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram for a place in the quarter-finals.

Scratch pairing Juan Martin del Potro and Grigor Dimitrov landed a convincing 6-3, 6-2 victory over Roland Garros champions Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus. The win sets a second-round meeting with five-time Coupe Rogers champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.

A couple of all-French pairings had impressive first-round wins on Tuesday. Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez 6-3, 6-4, while Gael Monfil and Benoit Paire took down Paolo Lorenzi and Albert Ramos-Vinolas.