The draw for the main draw of the 30th edition of the Open 13 Provence (February 14-20), in Marseille, was carried out at midday at the Hôtel du département. Almost twenty years after his first appearance in the Marseille city, Richard Gasquet, who is one of the French in the running, made this draw.
The Héraultais, 35, had a heavy hand, since he inherited the Swede Mikael Ymer, who dominated him in the quarter-finals in Montpellier on February 4. A match in this first round, from which the four main seeds (Stefanos Tsitsipas, Andrey Rublev, Félix Auger-Aliassime and Aslan Karatsev) are exempt, particularly attracts attention: it will indeed oppose two of the emblematic Blues of the last two decades , namely Gilles Simon to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
