Madrid Masters: Lucky loser Struff edges out valiant Shelton to make third round
Jan-Lennard Struff edged out Ben Shelton 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5 on Saturday and will play the winner of the match between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 7 seed, and Serb Dusan Lajovic in the next round
German lucky loser Jan-Lennard Struff moved into the third round of the Madrid Masters by edging out American Ben Shelton, the No 32 seed, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5 at the Caja Magica on Saturday.
Struff, ranked No 65, will play the winner of the match between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 7 seed, and Serb Dusan Lajovic next.
Ahead of his victory, the 33-year-old German won against Italian Lorenzo Sonego (6-3, 6-1).
Madrid Masters, other second-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Dominic Thiem vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Yosuke Watanuki vs. Cameron Norrie
- Cristian Garin vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Sebastian Baez vs. Marcos Giron
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Pedro Cachin
- Alex De Minaur vs. Marco Cecchinato
- Taylor Fritz vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Daniel Evans
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Dusan Lajovic: saturday
- Aslan Karatsev vs. Botic van de Zandschulp: saturday
- Tommy Paul vs. Roman Safiullin: saturday
- Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Andrea Vavassori (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Alexander Shevchenko (Q) beat Jiri Lehecka (31): 6-1, 6-1
- 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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