US Open: Fritz eases past Comesana, moves into last 16

American Taylor Fritz, the No 12 seed, reached the last 16 of the US Open by defeating Argentinian Francisco Comesana 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Fritz, ranked No 12, will play the winner of the match between Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 8 seed, and Chinese Juncheng Shang next.

The American won against Argentinian Camilo Ugo Carabelli (7-5, 6-1, 6-2) and Italian Matteo Berrettini (6-3, 7-6 (1), 6-1) ahead of his victory.

In the previous rounds of the US Open, Comesana, ranked No 108, beat Swiss Dominic Stricker (4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3) and edged out Frenchman Ugo Humbert, the No 17 seed (5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4).

New York (Grand Slam), other third-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 75.000.000, most recent results first):

• Flavio Cobolli vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Alex De Minaur vs. Daniel Evans
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Jordan Thompson
• Nuno Borges vs. Jakub Mensik
• Gabriel Diallo vs. Tommy Paul
• Jannik Sinner vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Jack Draper
• David Goffin vs. Tomas Machac
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Alexander Zverev
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Novak Djokovic
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Lorenzo Musetti: friday
• Casper Ruud vs. Juncheng Shang: friday
• Grigor Dimitrov (9) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
• Andrey Rublev (6) beat Jiri Lehecka (32): 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
• Frances Tiafoe (20) beat Ben Shelton (13): 4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3