Monte-Carlo Masters: Hurkacz makes last 16 despite valiant Draper effort
Hubert Hurkacz edged out Jack Draper 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-5 on Tuesday and will face the winner of the match between Argentinian Diego Schwartzman and Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 7 seed, in the next round
Pole Hubert Hurkacz, the No 10 seed, reached the last 16 of the Monte-Carlo Masters by edging out Jack Draper 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-5 at Monte-Carlo Country Club on Tuesday.
Hurkacz, ranked No 13, will play the winner of the match between Argentinian Diego Schwartzman and Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 7 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Monte-Carlo tournament, the Pole edged out Serb Laslo Djere (6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5)).
Draper, ranked No 56, won against Argentinian Sebastian Baez (6-3, 7-5) in the first 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):
- Dominic Thiem vs. Holger Rune
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Taylor Fritz vs. Stan Wawrinka
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Ilya Ivashka vs. Karen Khachanov
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Jannik Sinner
- Luca Nardi vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Casper Ruud
- Alex De Minaur vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Alexander Zverev
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (2) beat Benjamin Bonzi: 4-1 ret.
- Novak Djokovic (1) beat Ivan Gakhov (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Andrey Rublev (5) beat Jaume Munar: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2