Australian Open: Mannarino overcomes fightback from Munar to march into third round
Adrian Mannarino beat Jaume Munar 6-3, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6, 6-3 on Wednesday night and will play American Ben Shelton, the No 16 seed, in the next round
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Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, the No 20 seed, beat Spaniard Jaume Munar 6-3, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6, 6-3 to move into the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.
Mannarino, ranked No 19, will face American Ben Shelton, the No 16 seed, next.
The 35-year-old Frenchman won against Swiss Stan Wawrinka (6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-0) in the previous round.
In the first round, Munar, ranked No 82, defeated Russian Alexander Shevchenko (6-3, 6-3, 6-1).
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
- Christopher Eubanks vs. Andrey Rublev: wednesday
- Sebastian Korda vs. Quentin Halys: wednesday
- Jordan Thompson vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas: wednesday
- Gael Monfils vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: wednesday
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Tomas Machac: wednesday
- Ben Shelton beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- Fabian Marozsan beat Francisco Cerundolo (22): 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2
- Taylor Fritz (12) beat Hugo Gaston (LL): 6-0, 6-3, 6-1
- Karen Khachanov (15) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q): 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
- Luca Van Assche beat Lorenzo Musetti (25): 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0
- 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
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