Paris Masters: Rinderknech moves into last 16

French wildcard Arthur Rinderknech won against American Alex Michelsen 7-6 (6), 7-6 (7) to move into the last 16 of Paris Masters at the Accor Arena on Wednesday.

Rinderknech, ranked No 60, will face the winner of the match between Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 8 seed, and Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry next.

In the previous round of the Paris-Bercy tournament, the Frenchman benefited from the abandonment of Tomas Machac (6-7 (3), 5-3).

Michelsen, ranked No 44, beat Pole Hubert Hurkacz, the No 12 seed (6-1, 6-3) in the previous round of the Paris-Bercy tournament.

Paris Masters 1000, other second-round results (Accor Arena, hard, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):

• Arthur Cazaux vs. Ben Shelton
• Alexander Zverev vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Jack Draper vs. Taylor Fritz
• Alex De Minaur vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Ugo Humbert vs. Marcos Giron
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard vs. Karen Khachanov
• Alexander Bublik vs. Holger Rune
• Arthur Fils vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Zizou Bergs vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Jordan Thompson beat Casper Ruud (7): 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (10) beat Alejandro Tabilo: 6-3, 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Nicolas Jarry: 7-5, 6-1
• Francisco Cerundolo beat Andrey Rublev (6): 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5)

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