Noah Rubin recorded his third Top 100 win of 2016 on Monday at the $100,000 ATP Challenger Tour event in Sarasota. Facing fellow American and No. 1 seed Denis Kudla in the opening round, Rubin rallied from 3-5 down in the final set and saved a match point to prevail, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (8).

Rubin will next play Gonzalo Lama in his second-round match on Wednesday. 

The newly-minted World No. 1 doubles player and his partner survived a tight opening match at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Tuesday.

Jamie Murray, who took over the No. 1 spot in the Emirates ATP Doubles Rankings last week, and Bruno Soares beat Canadian Daniel Nestor and Czech Radek Stepanek 6-7(5), 7-6(9), 14-12 to move into the quarter-finals. The Brit and the Brazilian, the No. 4 seeds, received a first-round bye.

In the second set, Murray and Soares erased two match points. In the match tie-break, they were down 11-12 as Nestor and Stepanek had a another match point. But the No. 4 seeds earned two mini-breaks and held to win the final three points.

In another close contest, Spaniard David Marrero and Frenchman Benoit Paire defeated the Austrian team of Oliver Marach and Dominic Thiem 7-6(5), 7-6(4). Marrerro and Paire will face the No. 2 seeds Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Marcelo Melo of Brazil in the second round.

Eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga came through a tough opener on Tuesday evening, beating Pablo Carreno Busta 7-6(1), 7-6(5) to reach the third round of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters.

The Frenchman served for the match at 6-5 in the second set, but the resilient Carreno Busta fought back to force a tie-break. Tsonga rallied from a 3-5 deficit in the tie-break to claim victory in just over two hours.

The 30-year-old Tsonga claimed his 12^th win of the season, highlighted by reaching the semi-finals in Auckland (l. to Bautista Agut) and the quarter-finals in Indian Wells (l. to Djokovic). He enjoyed his best result at the Monte-Carlo Country Club three years ago, when he beat Stan Wawrinka en route to the semi-finals (l. to Nadal).

In an all-Italian first-round clash, Paolo Lorenzi rallied from a set down to beat Fabio Fognini 2-6, 6-0, 6-1 in 82 minutes. Lorenzi goes on to face Gael Monfils. Monfils leads their FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry 1-0.

Earlier this year, Juan Martin del Potro excited tennis fans in Delray Beach, Indian Wells and Miami by including those stops in his return to the ATP World Tour. In the coming weeks, tennis fans in Munich and Madrid will get to see him next.

The Argentine announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday that he’ll continue his comeback on clay at the BMW Open by FWU AG in Munich later this month and at the Mutua Madrid Open in May. It’s been about three years since del Potro last played on clay (Rome 2013). He most recently played in Munich in 2008 (QF l. to El Aynaoui) and in Madrid in 2012 (SF l. to Berdych).

The 27 year old returned to tour-level competition in February after sitting out 11 months because of surgery on his left wrist on 18 June. He played in just two tournaments in all of 2015.

Below is del Potro’s Facebook post to his fans:

Hello everyone!!

I am really happy to tell you that Munich and Madrid will be my first two clay tournaments after a long time… I’ve been practising on clay for a week now after years of not playing on this surface and I will keep getting better in the next few days.

Rehab on my wrist is going as planned. Although I must be patient I am thrilled to be able to confirm two tournaments in a row, the first time I do this since I came back to tennis.

As always, thanks for your messages!

It was like he’d never been away. After being sidelined since the Australian Open, Roger Federer raced into the third round of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Tuesday in his first match back on the ATP World Tour, dismissing Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-4.

After reaching the semi-finals in Melbourne, the Swiss underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee for a meniscus tear. His scheduled comeback in Miami was then thwarted due to illness.

But the Basel native showed no signs of rust on Court Rainier III as he swept past Garcia-Lopez in 75 minutes. He only faltered once, losing his serve when attempting to close out the match at 5-2 in the second set. But the right-hander sealed victory at the second time of asking.

“The knee felt really good, like in practice. Felt like I didn’t have to worry about it. I could just go freely,” Federer said. “I think in a way it was a perfect match. It was close in the beginning, then I was able to go on a roll. Points were cut short by virtue of me serving better and returning better, getting second serves, taking advantage of that fact. At the end, again, I had to fight for it. I went through different phases in the match. Also emotionally, I was excited and tense in the beginning, just because it’s a first round. It’s my first match back. So it was nice to go through all these emotions.”

The 34-year-old Federer is a four-time finalist at the Monte-Carlo Country Club, finishing runner-up from 2006-08 (l. to Nadal) and again in 2014 (l. to Wawrinka). The Swiss is chasing his 25^th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown.

“I think I got what I needed. So we’ll see how I feel tomorrow, tonight, the next day,” Federer said. “Sometimes after a match, you can feel it for two days. At this point I’m pretty confident I’ll feel fine.”

Last week’s Marrakech finalists both fell at the first hurdle in Monte-Carlo. Fernando Verdasco made short work of champion Federico Delbonis, beating the Argentine 6-0, 6-3, while Philipp Kohlschreiber defeated #NextGen player Borna Coric 6-4, 6-4.

David Goffin kept up his strong form, cruising into the second round with a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Feliciano Lopez. The 11^th-seeded Goffin has made a career-best start this season, highlighted by reaching back-to-back semi-finals at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments in Indian Wells (l. to Raonic) and Miami (l. to Djokovic) last month.

Qualifier Taro Daniel set a second-round clash with Dominic Thiem after beating Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-4, while Jiri Vesely will face World No. 1 Novak Djokovic after edging Teymuraz Gabashvili 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 in two hours and 20 minutes.

Andy Murray survived a stern test in his Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters opener on Tuesday, defeating France’s Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.

The second seed advanced in two hours and seven minutes over qualifier Herbert, losing serve four times, but breaking his opponent six times and ultimately winning six points more in the contest.

The 28-year-old Murray is looking for a return to top form after third-round exits in Indian Wells (l. to Delbonis) and Miami (l. to Dimitrov). He began 2016 with a fifth runner-up showing at the Australian Open, before taking a break from the ATP World Tour to celebrate the birth of his first child with wife, Kim Sears.

Last year, Murray enjoyed his best season to date on the dirt, capturing his first two clay-court titles in Munich (d. Kohlschreiber) and at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Madrid (d. Nadal).

The Dunblane native, twice a semi-finalist at the Monte-Carlo Country Club, goes on to face either Benoit Paire or Joao Sousa. Sousa advanced to the second round with a 6-3, 7-6(4) victory over Ivo Karlovic.

Gilles Simon opened the day’s proceedings on Court Ranier III with a 6-4, 6-3 second-round victory over Grigor Dimitrov. The 15th-seeded Frenchman beat Dimitrov for the fifth time in six meetings as he claimed his 11th win of the season.

In remaining first-round action, qualifier Damir Dzumhur cruised past Robin Haase 6-2, 6-0 in just 47 minutes, while Pablo Cuevas toiled for three hours and 20 minutes before edging qualifier Daniel Gimeno-Traver 7-6(2), 6-7(2), 7-6(4).