US Open: Davidovich Fokina looking good with second straight-sets win

Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the No 21 seed, defeated Argentinian Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the third round of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday night.

It was a continuation of Davidovich Fokina’s fine hard court form, with the Spaniard making the semi-finals of the Toronto Masters recently and winning his opening match at the US Open in straight sets. Again, the world No 21 played clean tennis, making 33 winners to 17 unforced errors, and winning 74 percent of first serve points.

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Davidovich Fokina, ranked No 21, will play American Tommy Paul, the No 14 seed, next.

The Spaniard won against American Marcos Giron (6-4, 6-4, 6-2) in the previous round of the US Open, while Cerundolo, ranked No 93, went the distance against Belarusian Ilya Ivashka (2-6, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3, 6-3).

New York (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000, most recent results first):

• Daniil Medvedev vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Lloyd Harris
• Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Sebastian Baez
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Daniel Evans
• Gael Monfils vs. Andrey Rublev
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Alex Michelsen
• Yibing Wu vs. Alex De Minaur
• Yu Hsiou Hsu vs. Cameron Norrie
• Arthur Fils vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Matteo Berrettini vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Andy Murray vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Jack Draper vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Michael Mmoh vs. John Isner
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jannik Sinner
• Alexander Zverev vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Taylor Fritz
• Sebastian Ofner vs. Frances Tiafoe: wednesday
• Casper Ruud vs. Zhizhen Zhang: wednesday
• Titouan Droguet vs. Jakub Mensik: wednesday
• Tommy Paul vs. Roman Safiullin: wednesday
• Rinky Hijikata (WC) beat Marton Fucsovics: 6-1, 6-2, 6-1
• Ben Shelton beat Dominic Thiem: 7-6 (1), 1-0 ret.
• Adrian Mannarino (22) beat Fabian Marozsan: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1
• Jiri Vesely beat Francisco Cerundolo (20): 7-6 (5), 6-2, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6 (6)
• Novak Djokovic (2) beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-4, 6-1, 6-1
• Benjamin Bonzi (WC) beat Christopher Eubanks (28): 7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7)
• Aslan Karatsev beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Laslo Djere (32) beat Hugo Gaston (Q): 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
• Borna Gojo (Q) beat Mackenzie McDonald: 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Dominic Stricker (Q) beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (7): 7-5, 6-7 (2), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6), 6-3