David Goffin enjoyed a ‘sweet’ return to Gstaad. The top seed at this week’s J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad visited a mini chalet in town Monday and tried a traditional dessert, meringue with double cream and berries, which met with his approval.

Goffin, playing his second tournament since injuring his right ankle during Roland Garros, was pleased to continue his comeback at this ATP World Tour 250 clay-court tournament, where he reached the final on his 2015 debut (l. to Thiem).

“I’m happy to be back in Gstaad,” said the Belgian. “I’m trying to find my form and want to play as many matches as possible to get back to my level. It’s important to be back in competition.”

In first-round matches on a rainy Monday, 29-year-old French qualifier Gleb Sakharov made a winning tour-level debut. He defeated Swiss wild card Antoine Bellier 6-3, 7-6(8) to set a meeting with No. 2 seed Roberto Bautista Agut.

German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann and Slovakian Norbert Gombos earned second-round clashes with respectively No. 3 seed Feliciano Lopez and No. 4 seed Fabio Fognini. Hanfmann prevailed against Argentine Facundo Bagnis 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-4 in one hour and 51 minutes, while Gombos closed out a 7-6(8), 6-2 win over Taro Daniel.

Denis Istomin picked up his first win since Roland Garros, easing past Italian qualifier Lorenzo Giustino 6-3, 6-2 in 54 minutes. 

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Germany’s Florian Mayer got his campaign on home soil off to a successful start, beating Marco Cecchinato 7-5, 6-2 in the German Tennis Championships 2017 first round on Monday. The 33 year old awaits the winner of the match between second seed Pablo Cuevas and Russian Andrey Kuznetsov.

Fourth seed Gilles Simon opened his quest for a second title in Hamburg, beating local wild card Maximilian Marterer 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in two hours and three minutes. Seemingly in control for last parts of the match, Simon trailed 0-2 in the deciding set, but worked his way back to gain the crucial break in the seventh game. Simon last lifted a trophy – the 12th of his career – in February 2015 at the Open 13 Marseille and now awaits the winner of the match between Philipp Kohlschreiber and Andrey Rublev, last week’s Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag titlist.

Fifth seed Benoit Paire struck 11 aces and lost just three of his first service points (17/20) to sweep past former World No. 20 Dmitry Tursunov 6-3, 6-2 in 53 minutes. He will next challenge 2012 runner-up, Tommy Haas, who made his hometown tournament debut in 1997, or Nicolas Kicker in the second round.

Sixth seed Diego Schwartzman recorded his first victory in three visits to the Rothenbaum by losing 11 of his service points in beating Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-2, 6-3 in 76 minutes. He’ll next meet qualifier Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, who was a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Damir Dzumhur.

Top seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas will face Jan-Lennard Struff in the second round after the German handily defeated Evgeny Donskoy 6-3, 6-4. Horacio Zeballos also advanced to the second round with a 7-6(2), 6-4 win over German wild card Daniel Altmaier.

In doubles, Rogerio Dutra Silva and Ramos-Vinolas teamed to defeat home hopes Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz 2-6, 7-6(4), 10-4 in 84 minutes.

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The ATP World Tour will heat up on the North American hard courts in the coming weeks, with the US Open Series set to get underway at the BB&T Atlanta Open.

Now in its 14th season, the US Open Series links four North American hard-court tournaments to the final Grand Slam of the year, the US Open. After hitting the courts in Atlanta, players move to a pair of ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal and Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, followed by the Winston-Salem Open.

Jack Sock is the top seed this week in Atlanta, with three-time champion John Isner looking to return to the winners’ circle at Atlantic Station after a final defeat to Nick Kyrgios last year. Also in action are a slew of #NextGenATP stars – Frances Tiafoe, Taylor Fritz, Ernesto Escobedo, Reilly Opelka, Jared Donaldson and Hyeon Chung.

Novak Djokovic is the defending champion in Canada, with Marin Cilic returning to Cincinnati, the site of his first Masters 1000 victory. In Winston-Salem, Pablo Carreno Busta won an all-Spanish final over Roberto Bautista Agut. Djokovic continues his quest to complete the career Golden Masters in Cincinnati, with Federer eyeing an unprecedented eighth title.

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