Madrid Masters: Shevchenko edges past Rinderknech to move into second round

Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko beat Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica.

Shevchenko, ranked No 59, will face second seed Carlos Alcaraz next.

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

• Dusan Lajovic vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Pedro Cachin vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Darwin Blanch vs. Rafael Nadal
• Tomas Machac vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Max Purcell vs. Marcos Giron
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Alex Michelsen vs. Joao Fonseca
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Jakub Mensik
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Pavel Kotov
• Richard Gasquet vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Corentin Moutet vs. Juncheng Shang
• Lukas Klein vs. Pablo Llamas Ruiz
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Christopher Eubanks
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Facundo Bagnis
• Borna Coric vs. Benjamin Hassan
• Aslan Karatsev vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jack Draper
• Luciano Darderi vs. Gael Monfils: wednesday
• Luca Van Assche vs. Zizou Bergs: wednesday
• 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