Monte-Carlo Masters: Zverev books spot in last 16
Alexander Zverev won against Sebastian Ofner 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesday evening. He’ll play the winner of the match between Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 12 seed, in the next round
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German Alexander Zverev, the No 5 seed, reached the last 16 of the Monte-Carlo Masters by winning against Austrian Sebastian Ofner 6-3, 6-4 at Monte-Carlo Country Club on Tuesday.
He has now won all eight of his opening-round matches in Monte-Carlo, and extends his current winning streak on clay to six – having won his last tournament on the surface, in Hamburg last July, without dropping a set.
Zverev, ranked No 5, will play the winner of the match between Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 12 seed, next.
Ofner, ranked No 44, defeated Daniel Evans (6-1, 6-4) in the previous round of the Monte-Carlo tournament.
Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other second-round results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Grigor Dimitrov
- Holger Rune vs. Sumit Nagal
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Casper Ruud
- Sebastian Korda vs. Jannik Sinner
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Ugo Humbert
- Karen Khachanov vs. Francisco Cerundolo
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Andrey Rublev
- Alex De Minaur vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Arthur Fils vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Borna Coric vs. Jan-Lennard Struff: tuesday
- Novak Djokovic (1) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-1, 6-2
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