Madrid: Wawrinka battles past Cressy

Swiss Stan Wawrinka edged out American Maxime Cressy 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-6 (4) to advance to the second round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica on Wednesday.

Wawrinka, ranked No 84, will play No 5 seed Andrey Rublev next.

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

• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Aslan Karatsev vs. Laslo Djere
• Jason Kubler vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Andrea Vavassori vs. Andy Murray
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Marco Cecchinato
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Filip Krajinovic
• Nuno Borges vs. Marcos Giron
• Abdullah Shelbayh vs. Pedro Cachin
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Corentin Moutet vs. Yosuke Watanuki
• Jurij Rodionov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Cristian Garin vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
• J.J. Wolf vs. Alexander Shevchenko
• Kyle Edmund vs. Dominic Thiem
• Roman Safiullin vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Borna Gojo
• Martin Landaluce vs. Richard Gasquet
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jaume Munar
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Ugo Humbert
• Benoit Paire vs. Matteo Arnaldi: wednesday
• Pavel Kotov vs. Oscar Otte: wednesday
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Hugo Grenier: wednesday
• Yannick Hanfmann (Q) beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Roberto Carballes Baena beat David Goffin: 6-4, 6-4
• Alexander Bublik beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 7-6 (15), 6-7 (4), 6-4
• Quentin Halys beat Alexei Popyrin: 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Alex Molcan beat Yibing Wu: 6-2, 6-4
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas beat Ilya Ivashka: 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Hugo Gaston (WC) beat Jeremy Chardy: 6-3, 6-4
• Gregoire Barrere beat Emilio Nava (WC): 6-0, 5-7, 6-3

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