Paris Masters: Hurkacz moves into last 16
Hubert Hurkacz defeated Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday. He’ll play the winner of the match between Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 8 seed, and Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo in the next round
Pole Hubert Hurkacz, the No 11 seed, defeated Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3, 6-2 to move into the last 16 of Paris Masters at the Accor Arena on Wednesday afternoon.
Hurkacz, ranked No 11, will play the winner of the match between Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 8 seed, and Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo next.
The Pole won against American Sebastian Korda (6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3) ahead of his victory.
In the previous round of the Paris-Bercy tournament, Bautista Agut, ranked No 66, won against Jiri Lehecka (6-4, 6-2).
Paris Masters, other second-round results (Accor Arena, EUR 5.779.335, most recent results first):
- Jannik Sinner vs. Mackenzie McDonald
- Dominic Thiem vs. Holger Rune
- Ugo Humbert vs. Alexander Zverev
- Casper Ruud vs. Francisco Cerundolo
- Novak Djokovic vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Alex De Minaur
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime: wednesday
- Grigor Dimitrov beat Daniil Medvedev (3): 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2)
- Botic van de Zandschulp (Q) beat Tommy Paul (12): 6-4, 2-6, 6-3
- Taylor Fritz vs. Daniel Altmaier
- Andrey Rublev (5) beat Yoshihito Nishioka (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Alexander Bublik beat Nicolas Jarry: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
- Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Carlos Alcaraz (2): 6-3, 6-4
- Karen Khachanov (16) beat Laslo Djere: 6-4, 7-5
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 6-2, 6-2