Madrid Masters: Shevchenko edges past Rinderknech to move into second round
Alexander Shevchenko won against Arthur Rinderknech 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 on Wednesday afternoon. He’ll face second seed Carlos Alcaraz in the next round
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Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko beat Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica.
Shevchenko, ranked No 59, will face second seed Carlos Alcaraz next.
Madrid Masters 1000, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Thiago Monteiro
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Hamad Medjedovic
- Pedro Cachin vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Darwin Blanch vs. Rafael Nadal
- Tomas Machac vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
- Dominik Koepfer vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Max Purcell vs. Marcos Giron
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Alex Michelsen vs. Joao Fonseca
- Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Jakub Mensik
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Pavel Kotov
- Richard Gasquet vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Corentin Moutet vs. Juncheng Shang
- Lukas Klein vs. Pablo Llamas Ruiz
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Facundo Bagnis
- Borna Coric vs. Benjamin Hassan
- Aslan Karatsev vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jack Draper
- Luciano Darderi vs. Gael Monfils: wednesday
- Luca Van Assche vs. Zizou Bergs: wednesday
- Daniel Altmaier beat Martin Landaluce (WC): 6-1, 7-5
- Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-4
- Jaume Munar beat Nuno Borges: 7-5, 6-4
- Mariano Navone beat Alexei Popyrin: 7-5, 6-2
- Taro Daniel beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1
