Madrid Masters: Lucky loser Struff advances to last 16

German lucky loser Jan-Lennard Struff reached the last 16 of the Madrid Masters by beating Serb Dusan Lajovic 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-3 at the Caja Magica on Monday.

Struff, ranked No 65, will face the winner of the match between Argentinian Pedro Cachin and American Frances Tiafoe, the No 9 seed, next.

Ahead of his victory, the 33-year-old German won against Italian Lorenzo Sonego (6-3, 6-1) and edged out American Ben Shelton, the No 32 seed (4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5).

Lajovic, ranked No 40, defeated Australian Jason Kubler (6-3, 6-3) and edged out Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 7 seed (6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5)) in the previous rounds of the Madrid tournament.

Madrid Masters, other third-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):

• Sebastian Baez vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Cameron Norrie
• Taylor Fritz vs. Cristian Garin
• Roman Safiullin vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Pedro Cachin vs. Frances Tiafoe: monday
• Alex De Minaur vs. Aslan Karatsev: monday
• Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Alexander Shevchenko (Q): 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (29) beat Holger Rune (6): 7-6 (1), 5-7, 7-6 (5)
• Daniel Altmaier (LL) beat Yannick Hanfmann (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Grigor Dimitrov (26): 6-2, 7-5
• Borna Coric (17) beat Hubert Hurkacz (12): 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Alexander Zverev (13) beat Hugo Grenier (Q): 6-1, 6-0
• Andrey Rublev (5) beat Yoshihito Nishioka (28): 6-2, 7-5
• Jaume Munar beat Matteo Arnaldi (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
• Karen Khachanov (10) beat Roberto Bautista Agut (20): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3