Fritz flies into last 32 at Australian Open

Taylor Fritz, the No 12 seed, defeated French lucky loser Hugo Gaston 6-0, 6-3, 6-1 to move into the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.

Fritz, ranked No 12, will now face the winner of the match between Hungarian Fabian Marozsan and Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 22 seed.

The American beat Argentinian Facundo Diaz Acosta (4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4) in the previous round.

Gaston, ranked No 97, had previously gotten the best of Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena (6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4).

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):

• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Holger Rune vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Hugo Grenier
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Jakub Mensik vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Arthur Fils vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Sumit Nagal vs. Juncheng Shang
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Ugo Humbert vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Nuno Borges vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Tommy Paul vs. Jack Draper
• Max Purcell vs. Casper Ruud
• Cameron Norrie vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Alexander Zverev vs. Lukas Klein
• Novak Djokovic vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Jordan Thompson vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Sebastian Korda vs. Quentin Halys
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Tomas Machac
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Andrey Rublev
• Gael Monfils vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Jaume Munar: wednesday
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Ben Shelton: wednesday
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Francisco Cerundolo: wednesday
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Karen Khachanov: wednesday
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Luca Van Assche: wednesday
• Flavio Cobolli (Q) beat Pavel Kotov: 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
• Sebastian Baez (26) beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 7-5, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Alex De Minaur (10) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-3, 6-0, 6-3
• Jannik Sinner (4) beat Jesper De Jong (Q): 6-2, 6-2, 6-2