Madrid Masters: Darderi downs Monfils in round one

Italian Luciano Darderi defeated Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica on Wednesday afternoon.

Darderi, ranked No 60, will play No 12 seed Taylor Fritz next.

Madrid Masters 1000, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):

• Dominik Koepfer vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Darwin Blanch vs. Rafael Nadal
• Alex Michelsen vs. Joao Fonseca
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Pavel Kotov
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Jakub Mensik
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Max Purcell vs. Marcos Giron
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Richard Gasquet vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Pedro Cachin vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Tomas Machac vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Corentin Moutet vs. Juncheng Shang
• Lukas Klein vs. Pablo Llamas Ruiz
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Christopher Eubanks
• Borna Coric vs. Benjamin Hassan
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jack Draper
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Facundo Bagnis
• Aslan Karatsev vs. Fabian Marozsan: wednesday
• Luca Van Assche vs. Zizou Bergs
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
• 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