Madrid Masters: Fritz battles past fellow O’Connell to reach round three
Taylor Fritz won against Christopher O’Connell 7-6 (11), 6-4 on Saturday. He’ll face the winner of the match between Chilean Cristian Garin and Serb Miomir Kecmanovic, the No 27 seed, in the next round
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American Taylor Fritz, the No 8 seed, reached the third round of the Madrid Masters by winning against Australian Christopher O’Connell 7-6 (11), 6-4 at the Caja Magica on Saturday.
Fritz, ranked No 10, will play the winner of the match between Chilean Cristian Garin and Serb Miomir Kecmanovic, the No 27 seed, next.
O’Connell, ranked No 81, defeated Serb Filip Krajinovic (6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.
Madrid Masters, other second-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Dominic Thiem vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Yosuke Watanuki vs. Cameron Norrie
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Pedro Cachin: saturday
- Cristian Garin vs. Miomir Kecmanovic: saturday
- Frances Tiafoe (9) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Sebastian Baez (25) beat Marcos Giron: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- 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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