The final table had not started for two hours, in Atlanta that, already, the French contingent had packed their bags. It was first Benoît Paire (94th) who was no match for the American Jenson Brooksby, who is ahead of him by 51 places in the ATP rankings (6-3, 6-1). This is his tenth defeat in his last eleven matches.
Quentin Halys had even “better” missed his start, conceding an express 6-0 once morest Belarusian Ilya Ivashka (53rd). Totally ineffective in this first set, where he only scored one point out of nine behind his first service ball, Halys (74th) then put his game and his head upright, to equalize at one set everywhere, before suffering a decisive break at 4-3 in the third set (6-0, 3-6, 6-3).