Madrid Masters: Cerundolo moves into last 16
Francisco Cerundolo defeated Tommy Paul 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday evening. He’ll play the winner of the match between Canadian Denis Shapovalov and German Alexander Zverev, the No 4 seed, in the next round
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Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 21 seed, reached the last 16 of the Madrid Masters by winning against American Tommy Paul, the No 15 seed, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-2 at the Caja Magica on Sunday evening.
Cerundolo, ranked No 22, will play the winner of the match between Canadian Denis Shapovalov and German Alexander Zverev, the No 4 seed, next.
The Argentinian beat Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (6-2, 7-6 (5)) ahead of his victory.
In the previous round of the Madrid tournament, Paul, ranked No 16, edged out Slovak qualifier Lukas Klein (6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4).
Madrid Masters 1000, other third-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Jannik Sinner vs. Pavel Kotov
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Karen Khachanov
- Jakub Mensik vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Rafael Nadal vs. Pedro Cachin
- Cameron Norrie vs. Casper Ruud
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Thiago Monteiro
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Sebastian Korda
- Alexander Bublik vs. Ben Shelton
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Alexander Zverev
- Taylor Fritz (12) beat Sebastian Baez (18): 6-2, 6-3
- Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-3, 6-3
- Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Andrey Rublev (7) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (27): 7-6 (10), 6-4
- Jan-Lennard Struff (23) beat Ugo Humbert (13): 7-5, 6-4
- Tallon Griekspoor (24) beat Holger Rune (11): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
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