Miami Masters: Van Assche makes second round, plays Ruud next
Luca van Assche won against Pavel Kotov 6-3, 7-5 on Wednesday evening and will play No 7 seed Casper Ruud in the next round

Frenchman Luca van Assche reached the second round of the Miami Masters by winning against Russian Pavel Kotov 6-3, 7-5 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Van Assche, ranked No 80, will play No 7 seed Casper Ruud next.
Miami Masters 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 10.404.205, most recent results first):
- Alex Michelsen vs. Lukas Klein
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Harold Mayot
- Alexandre Muller vs. SoonWoo Kwon
- Laslo Djere vs. Chak Lam Coleman Wong
- Sebastian Ofner vs. Kei Nishikori
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Daniel Evans
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Adam Walton
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Alexander Shevchenko
- Emilio Nava vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Yannick Hanfmann
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Martin Landaluce vs. Jaume Munar
- Roman Safiullin vs. Diego Schwartzman
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Gael Monfils
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Marcos Giron vs. Dominik Koepfer
- Arthur Fils vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Martin Damm vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Juncheng Shang
- Andy Murray vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Pedro Cachin vs. Andrea Vavassori
- Max Purcell vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Nuno Borges
- Tomas Machac vs. Darwin Blanch
- Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Vit Kopriva
- Jack Draper vs. Taro Daniel
- Luciano Darderi vs. Denis Shapovalov: wednesday
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Botic van de Zandschulp: wednesday