Toronto Masters: Musetti cruises into second round

Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 16 seed, defeated Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4, 6-1 to reach the second round of the Toronto Masters at the Aviva Centre on Monday evening.

Musetti, ranked No 19, will face the winner of the match between Chinese Zhizhen Zhang and Australian qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis next.

First winner of the week 💪

Lorenzo Musetti dominates Nishioka 6-4 6-1 to reach R2!#NationalBankOpen pic.twitter.com/26ftytRWB0

— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) August 7, 2023

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Toronto Masters, other first-round matches (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 6,600,000):

• Vasek Pospisil vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Alex De Minaur vs. Cameron Norrie
• Gabriel Diallo vs. Daniel Evans
• Ugo Humbert vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Alexander Zverev vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Andy Murray
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Max Purcell
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Borna Coric
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Sebastian Korda
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
• Ben Shelton vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Milos Raonic vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Tommy Paul vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Cristian Garin vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Gael Monfils vs. Christopher Eubanks
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Taro Daniel
• Alexander Bublik vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. J.J. Wolf
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Gregoire Barrere vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Alexis Galarneau vs. Francisco Cerundolo