Monte-Carlo: Fritz tops Wawrinka, books spot in last 16

American Taylor Fritz, the No 8 seed, moved into the last 16 of the Monte-Carlo Masters by beating Swiss wildcard Stan Wawrinka 7-6 (10), 6-2 at Monte-Carlo Country Club on Wednesday.

Fritz records his 50th Masters 1000 win, and his first over Wawrinka in three tries.

The American saved a pair of set points in the opening set and converted his fourth set point to improve to 13-2 in tiebreaks in 2023.

Fritz, ranked No 10, will play Czech Jiri Lehecka next.

Wawrinka, ranked No 90, edged out Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor (5-7, 6-3, 6-4) in the previous round of the Monte-Carlo tournament.

Monte-Carlo Masters, other second-round results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 5.779.335, most recent results first):

• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Dominic Thiem vs. Holger Rune: wednesday
• Daniil Medvedev (3) beat Lorenzo Sonego (WC): 6-3, 6-2
• Karen Khachanov (9) beat Ilya Ivashka (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Jannik Sinner (7) beat Diego Schwartzman: 6-0, 3-1 ret.
• Jiri Lehecka beat Grigor Dimitrov: 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Lorenzo Musetti (16) beat Luca Nardi (Q): 6-0, 6-0
• Nicolas Jarry beat Alexei Popyrin (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Casper Ruud (4) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 7-5, 7-6 (1)
• Jan-Lennard Struff (Q) beat Alex De Minaur (14): 6-3, 6-2
• Alexander Zverev (13) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-4, 6-4
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (2) beat Benjamin Bonzi: 4-1 ret.
• Hubert Hurkacz (10) beat Jack Draper: 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-5
• Novak Djokovic (1) beat Ivan Gakhov (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Andrey Rublev (5) beat Jaume Munar: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2

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