Madrid Masters: Bublik books spot in second round
Alexander Bublik edged out Daniel Elahi Galan 7-6 (15), 6-7 (4), 6-4 on Wednesday afternoon and will face No 6 seed Holger Rune in the next round
Kazakh Alexander Bublik edged out Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan 7-6 (15), 6-7 (4), 6-4 to move into the second round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica on Wednesday.
Bublik, ranked No 55, will play No 6 seed Holger Rune 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
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jaume Munar
- Thiago Monteiro vs. Borna Gojo
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Ugo Humbert
- Benoit Paire vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Pavel Kotov vs. Oscar Otte
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Hugo Grenier: wednesday
- Maxime Cressy vs. Stan Wawrinka: wednesday
- Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Yannick Hanfmann: wednesday
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat David Goffin: 6-4, 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
