Madrid Masters: Klein battles to victory over Llamas Ruiz to reach second round

Slovak qualifier Lukas Klein reached the second round of the Madrid Masters by edging out Spanish qualifier Pablo Llamas Ruiz 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (4) at the Caja Magica.

Klein, ranked No 120, will face No 15 seed Tommy Paul next.

Madrid Masters 1000, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):

• Dominik Koepfer vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Darwin Blanch vs. Rafael Nadal
• Alex Michelsen vs. Joao Fonseca
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Pavel Kotov
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Jakub Mensik
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Max Purcell vs. Marcos Giron
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Richard Gasquet vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Pedro Cachin vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Tomas Machac vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Denis Shapovalov: wednesday
• Corentin Moutet vs. Juncheng Shang: wednesday
• Botic van de Zandschulp beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-3, 6-3
• Facundo Bagnis (Q) beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Borna Coric beat Benjamin Hassan (Q): 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-3
• Jack Draper beat Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
• Fabian Marozsan beat Aslan Karatsev: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (2)
• Luciano Darderi beat Gael Monfils: 6-4, 6-2
• Luca Van Assche beat Zizou Bergs (WC): 6-4, 6-7, 6-1
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
• Daniel Altmaier beat Martin Landaluce (WC): 6-1, 7-5
• Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-4
• Jaume Munar beat Nuno Borges: 7-5, 6-4
• Mariano Navone beat Alexei Popyrin: 7-5, 6-2
• Taro Daniel beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1