Montreal Masters: Korda continues fine form with win over Fritz, through to last 16
Sebastian Korda won against Taylor Fritz 6-4, 7-6 (4) on Saturday evening and will play Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 6 seed, in the next round
Seb Korda, 2024 Zuma/Panoramic
Sebastian Korda edged past No 9 seed Taylor Fritz 6-4, 7-6 (4) to advance to the last 16 of the Montreal Masters at Stade IGA.
Korda, ranked No 18, will play Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 6 seed, next.
Sebastian Korda benefited from the abandonment of Canadian wildcard Vasek Pospisil (2-1) in the previous round of the Rogers Cup.
In the first round of the Rogers Cup, Fritz, ranked No 13, beat Argentinian Mariano Navone (6-4, 6-1).
Montreal Masters 1000, other second-round results (Stade IGA, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Hubert Hurkacz: saturday
- Arthur Rinderknech (Q) beat Flavio Cobolli: 6-3, 6-2
- Alexei Popyrin beat Ben Shelton (11): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Alejandro Tabilo (15) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-4, 6-2
- Holger Rune (13) beat Pablo Carreno Busta: 6-1, 6-3
- Jannik Sinner (1) beat Borna Coric (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Casper Ruud beat James Duckworth (LL): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Karen Khachanov (16): 7-5, 7-5
- Grigor Dimitrov (7) beat Rinky Hijikata (Q): 6-1, 6-0
- Alexander Zverev (2) beat Jordan Thompson: 6-1, 6-1
- Andrey Rublev (5) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Daniil Medvedev (3): 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
- Kei Nishikori beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (8): 6-4, 6-4
- Nuno Borges beat Ugo Humbert (12): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4)
- Brandon Nakashima (Q) beat Tommy Paul (10): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-1
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