Madrid Masters: Baez reaches third round
Sebastian Baez edged out Marcos Giron 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday and will face the winner of the match between Austrian wildcard Dominic Thiem and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 4 seed, in the next round
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Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 25 seed, edged out American Marcos Giron 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica on Saturday afternoon.
Baez, ranked No 31, will face the winner of the match between Austrian wildcard Dominic Thiem and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 4 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Madrid tournament, Giron, ranked No 61, beat Portuguese Nuno Borges (6-2, 7-6 (7)).
Madrid Masters, other second-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Dominic Thiem vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Yosuke Watanuki vs. Cameron Norrie
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Pedro Cachin: saturday
- Cristian Garin vs. Miomir Kecmanovic: saturday
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Frances Tiafoe: saturday
- Taylor Fritz vs. Christopher O’Connell: saturday
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles beat Daniel Evans (19): 6-3, 6-2
- Alex De Minaur (16) beat Marco Cecchinato (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Dusan Lajovic beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (7): 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- Aslan Karatsev (Q) beat Botic van de Zandschulp (23): 6-2, 7-5
- Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Tommy Paul (14): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Andrea Vavassori (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Alexander Shevchenko (Q) beat Jiri Lehecka (31): 6-1, 6-1
- Jan-Lennard Struff (LL) beat Ben Shelton (32): 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5
- Alexander Zverev (13) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-0
- Holger Rune (6) beat Alexander Bublik: 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (9)
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (29) beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas: 6-3, 6-4
- Hubert Hurkacz (12) beat Richard Gasquet: 6-7 (9), 6-4, 7-5
- Hugo Grenier (Q) beat Sebastian Korda (22): 7-6 (5), 7-6 (7)
- Borna Coric (17) beat Hugo Gaston (WC): 6-3, 6-3
- Roberto Bautista Agut (20) beat Quentin Halys: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (10) beat Thiago Monteiro: 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
- Grigor Dimitrov (26) beat Gregoire Barrere: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (2)
- Andrey Rublev (5) beat Stan Wawrinka: 7-5, 6-4
- Yannick Hanfmann (Q) beat Lorenzo Musetti (15): 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Daniel Altmaier (LL) beat Oscar Otte: 6-4, 7-5
- Jaume Munar beat Tallon Griekspoor (30): 7-6 (3) ret.
- Matteo Arnaldi (Q) beat Casper Ruud (3): 6-3, 6-4
- Yoshihito Nishioka (28) beat Alex Molcan: 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
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