Madrid Masters: Monteiro ends Tsitsipas’s run, reaches third round

Brazilian qualifier Thiago Monteiro reached the third round of the Madrid Masters by taking his fourth match point and beating Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 6 seed, 6-4, 6-4 at the Caja Magica on Saturday.

Tsitsipas’s form on clay this year has been wonderful, with his statistics now standing at 10-2, having won Monte-Carlo and reached the Barcelona final, where he lost to Casper Ruud.

The two had never played each other before – but Monteiro’s record against players ranked in the Top 10 is quite impressive for a man with a career high of world No 61, now with four wins and six defeats.

Monteiro, ranked No 118, will play the winner of the match between No 30 seed Jiri Lehecka and Serb qualifier Hamad Medjedovic next.

The Brazilian beat Serb Dusan Lajovic (6-4, 6-3) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.

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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
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Hamad Medjedovic: saturday
• Sebastian Korda (25) beat Max Purcell: 6-3, 6-3
• Alexander Zverev (4) beat Borna Coric: 6-3, 6-2
• Tallon Griekspoor (24) beat Taro Daniel: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Jan-Lennard Struff (23) beat Jaume Munar: 6-1, 7-5
• Holger Rune (11) beat Mariano Navone: 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Ugo Humbert (13) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-3, 6-3
• Taylor Fritz (12) beat Luciano Darderi: 7-6 (1), 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-2, 6-1
• Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Jack Draper: 6-1, 7-5
• Sebastian Baez (18) beat Luca Van Assche: 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-3
• 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