Marin Cilic began his 12th tilt at the Roland Garros title by striking 47 winners, including 13 aces, on Tuesday.
The third-seeded Croatian, improved to 19-8 on the season, by beating James Duckworth of Australia 6-3, 7-5, 7-6(4) in a rain-interrupted two hours and 14 minutes.
Last year’s quarter-finalist will next challenge 6’5” Polish qualifier Hubert Hurkacz, who defeated American Tennys Sandgren 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in two hours and 11 minutes.
Cilic won the first three games of the pair’s first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting, but came through a more competitive second set — which saw Duckworth break back for 5-5 — prior to a tense third set.
Duckworth, who underwent foot surgery in January, had been contesting his first tour-level match since the 2017 Australian Open.
Cilic has an 8-5 record on clay this year, including runs to the Internazionali BNL d’Italia semi-final (l. to A. Zverev) and Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters quarter-final (l. to Nishikori).
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