Madrid Masters: Tsitsipas finally prevails against Baez, through to last 16

Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 4 seed, won against Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 25 seed, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to advance to the last 16 of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica on Monday evening.

Tsitsipas, ranked No 5, will play Spaniard Bernabe Zapata Miralles next.

The Greek edged out Austrian wildcard Dominic Thiem (3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5)) in the previous round.

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

• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Cameron Norrie: monday
• Taylor Fritz (8) beat Cristian Garin: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Bernabe Zapata Miralles beat Roman Safiullin (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
• Pedro Cachin beat Frances Tiafoe (9): 6-1, 7-6 (2)
• Aslan Karatsev (Q) beat Alex De Minaur (16): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
• Jan-Lennard Struff (LL) beat Dusan Lajovic: 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-3
• 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