Madrid Masters: Baez makes third round
Sebastian Baez beat Luca Van Assche 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-3 on Friday afternoon. He’ll play the winner of the match between Italian Luciano Darderi and American Taylor Fritz, the No 12 seed, in the next round
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Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 18 seed, reached the third round of the Madrid Masters by winning against Frenchman Luca Van Assche 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-3 at the Caja Magica on Friday afternoon.
Baez, ranked No 19, will play the winner of the match between Italian Luciano Darderi and American Taylor Fritz, the No 12 seed, next.
Van Assche, ranked No 99, beat Belgian wildcard Zizou Bergs (6-4, 6-7, 6-1) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.
Madrid Masters 1000, other second-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Casper Ruud
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Karen Khachanov
- Cameron Norrie vs. Joao Fonseca
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Adrian Mannarino
- Alex De Minaur vs. Rafael Nadal
- Tomas Machac vs. Ben Shelton
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Jakub Mensik
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Alexander Bublik vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Pedro Cachin vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Pavel Kotov vs. Jordan Thompson
- Jannik Sinner vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Thiago Monteiro vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Hamad Medjedovic
- Max Purcell vs. Sebastian Korda
- Borna Coric vs. Alexander Zverev
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Taro Daniel
- Mariano Navone vs. Holger Rune
- Jaume Munar vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Ugo Humbert vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
- Luciano Darderi vs. Taylor Fritz: friday
- Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-2, 6-1
- Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Jack Draper: 6-1, 7-5
- Denis Shapovalov beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (26): 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (27) beat Juncheng Shang (WC): 7-5, 6-3
- Daniel Altmaier beat Arthur Fils (31): 6-2, 6-3
- Andrey Rublev (7) beat Facundo Bagnis (Q): 6-1, 6-4
- Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Lorenzo Musetti (28): 6-4, 6-4
- Francisco Cerundolo (21) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Tommy Paul (15) beat Lukas Klein (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4
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