Madrid Masters: Ninth seed Tiafoe books spot in third round
Frances Tiafoe won against Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Saturday. He’ll play the winner of the match between No 24 seed Francisco Cerundolo and Pedro Cachin in the next round
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American Frances Tiafoe, the No 9 seed, advanced to the third round of the Madrid Masters by defeating Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-3, 7-6 (5) at the Caja Magica on Saturday.
Tiafoe, ranked No 11, will play the winner of the match between No 24 seed Francisco Cerundolo and Pedro Cachin next.
Etcheverry, ranked No 59, won against Frenchman Adrian Mannarino (6-4, 6-0) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.
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
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Pedro Cachin: saturday
- Cristian Garin vs. Miomir Kecmanovic: saturday
- Taylor Fritz vs. Christopher O’Connell: saturday
- Sebastian Baez (25) beat Marcos Giron: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles beat Daniel Evans (19): 6-3, 6-2
- Alex De Minaur (16) beat Marco Cecchinato (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Dusan Lajovic beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (7): 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- Aslan Karatsev (Q) beat Botic van de Zandschulp (23): 6-2, 7-5
- Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Tommy Paul (14): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Andrea Vavassori (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Alexander Shevchenko (Q) beat Jiri Lehecka (31): 6-1, 6-1
- Jan-Lennard Struff (LL) beat Ben Shelton (32): 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5
- 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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