Montreal Masters: Korda advances to second round

American Sebastian Korda advanced to the second round of the Montreal Masters when Canadian wildcard Vasek Pospisil retired on Wednesday night at Stade IGA.

Korda, ranked No 18, led 2-1 when Vasek Pospisil pulled out on Wednesday night at Stade IGA.

The American will face American Taylor Fritz, the No 9 seed, next.

Montreal Masters 1000, other first-round results (Stade IGA, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):

• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Gael Monfils
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Flavio Cobolli: wednesday
• Arthur Rinderknech (Q) beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
• Taylor Fritz beat Mariano Navone: 6-4, 6-1
• Alexei Popyrin beat Tomas Machac: 6-3, 6-4
• James Duckworth (LL) beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 6-1
• Brandon Nakashima (Q) beat Denis Shapovalov (WC): 6-4, 7-5
• Borna Coric (Q) beat Pedro Martinez: 6-4, 6-4
• Ugo Humbert (12) beat Arthur Fils: 6-2, 6-2
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Roman Safiullin: 6-2, 7-5
• Ben Shelton (11) beat Alexander Bublik: 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Jordan Thompson beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 6-2
• Rinky Hijikata (Q) beat Taro Daniel (Q): 6-1, 7-5
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Mackenzie McDonald (Q): 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Tommy Paul (10) beat Luciano Darderi: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Alejandro Tabilo (15) beat Frances Tiafoe: 6-4, 6-2
• Pablo Carreno Busta beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-7 (8), 7-6 (6), 6-3
• Holger Rune (13) beat Roberto Bautista Agut (LL): 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
• Karen Khachanov (16) beat Gabriel Diallo (WC): 6-4, 6-4
• Nuno Borges beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Nicolas Jarry: 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-2
• Kei Nishikori beat Alex Michelsen: 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Lorenzo Sonego beat Tallon Griekspoor: 7-6 (7), 5-7, 6-4