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Andrey Rublev survived a second-round scare on Tuesday at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters to earn his 250th tour-level win. The fifth seed rallied from a set down to defeat Spaniard Jaume Munar 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 at the clay-court event.

Rublev, who reached the final in the Principality in 2021, overpowered Munar, clubbing 36 winners and breaking Munar’s serve six times to advance after two hours and 12 minutes. It was a strong turnaround after losing the first set.

"The feeling was, 'No way, I might be out in the first round of Monaco.' Then, I don’t know, I started to feel I had to change something, I had to play more aggressive," Rublev said in his on-court interview. "I cannot just push the ball because in the end he [was] running much better than me and in the end he [was] waiting for the right moment and he changed much easier [the direction] because I [was] not putting pressure on him."

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The 25-year-old now leads the World No. 83 Spaniard 2-1 in their ATP Head2Head series and will next face Karen Khachanov, Daniel Evans or qualifier Ilya Ivashka.