Montreal Masters: Borges advances to last 16 with impressive win over 12th seed Humbert

Portuguese Nuno Borges edged out Frenchman Ugo Humbert, the No 12 seed, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4) to advance to the last 16 of the Montreal Masters 

Borges, who recently won his first ATP title in Bastad vs Rafael Nadal, will play Japanese Kei Nishikori next. Nishikori will be reeling off an upset win over Stefanos Tsitsipas.

The Portuguese edged out Serb Miomir Kecmanovic (5-7, 6-4, 6-4) in the previous round of the Rogers Cup.

In the previous round, Humbert, ranked No 15, had, himself, looked impressive, and won against Arthur Fils (6-2, 6-2).

Montreal Masters 1000, other second-round matches (Stade IGA, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):

• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Daniil Medvedev (3): 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
• Kei Nishikori beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (8): 6-4, 6-4
• Brandon Nakashima (Q) beat Tommy Paul (10): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-1
• Sebastian Korda vs. Taylor Fritz
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Ben Shelton
• Holger Rune vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Jannik Sinner vs. Borna Coric
• Casper Ruud vs. James Duckworth
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Karen Khachanov
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Rinky Hijikata
• Jordan Thompson vs. Alexander Zverev
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Andrey Rublev

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