Madrid Masters: Arnaldi reaches second round
Matteo Arnaldi edged out Benoit Paire 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (6) on Wednesday evening and will face No 3 seed Casper Ruud in the next round
Italian qualifier Matteo Arnaldi reached the second round of the Madrid Masters by edging out French qualifier Benoit Paire 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (6) at the Caja Magica on Wednesday evening.
Arnaldi, ranked No 105, will play No 3 seed Casper Ruud next.
Madrid Masters, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
- Aslan Karatsev vs. Laslo Djere
- Jason Kubler vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Andrea Vavassori vs. Andy Murray
- Marton Fucsovics vs. Marco Cecchinato
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Filip Krajinovic
- Nuno Borges vs. Marcos Giron
- Abdullah Shelbayh vs. Pedro Cachin
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Corentin Moutet vs. Yosuke Watanuki
- Jurij Rodionov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Cristian Garin vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
- J.J. Wolf vs. Alexander Shevchenko
- Kyle Edmund vs. Dominic Thiem
- Roman Safiullin vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Adrian Mannarino
- Martin Landaluce vs. Richard Gasquet
- Thiago Monteiro vs. Borna Gojo: wednesday
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jaume Munar: wednesday
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Ugo Humbert: wednesday
- Oscar Otte beat Pavel Kotov (LL): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
- Hugo Grenier (Q) beat Diego Schwartzman: 7-5, 6-4
- Stan Wawrinka beat Maxime Cressy: 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Yannick Hanfmann (Q) beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat David Goffin: 6-4, 6-4
- Alexander Bublik beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 7-6 (15), 6-7 (4), 6-4
- Quentin Halys beat Alexei Popyrin: 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Alex Molcan beat Yibing Wu: 6-2, 6-4
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas beat Ilya Ivashka: 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Hugo Gaston (WC) beat Jeremy Chardy: 6-3, 6-4
- Gregoire Barrere beat Emilio Nava (WC): 6-0, 5-7, 6-3