In the early morning of April 14, Beijing time, the second round of the MEN's Singles of the ATP1000 Monte Carlo Masters continued. Zverev, the 2nd seed, played against del Boness, ranked 34th in the world. The two sides have met a total of 2 times before, and Zverev has won both. Zverev also performed even better in today's match, and on this unpopular match day Zverev refused to appear again, and he swept his opponent in two straight sets to advance.
In the first set Zverev took the lead in the 3rd set to complete the break, and then he maintained a 3-1 lead. In the 5th set Zverev broke the opponent's serve again, and after the 6th set was successfully saved, Zverev led the opponent 5-1. In the 7th set Zverev broke again and won the first set 6-1 easily.
Delbonnes started the second set with a 2-0 lead. In the 4th set Zverev completed the comeback to tie the set to 2-2. Del boness broke again in the 5th set and he then saved his serve before taking a 4-2 lead. In the 7th set Zverev defused the break point to save the serve, and in the 8th set Zverev broke four consecutive points to chase the set to 4-4. In the 10th set Delbones defused the match point to stubbornly hold the serve, and in the 12th set Zverev broke the set without a way back from the opponent, winning the second set 7-5.
In the end, in a game that took 1 hour and 26 minutes, Zverev, the no. 2 seed, defeated Argentine player Del Bones 6-1, 7-5 to achieve a clay season start. In the next round Zverev will face 13th seed Busta, who accepted Bublick's retirement in the decider.