Madrid Masters: Marozsan edges past Karatsev in close contest to make second round

Hungarian Fabian Marozsan reached the second round of the Madrid Masters by beating Russian Aslan Karatsev 7-6 (6), 7-6 (2) at the Caja Magica.

Marozsan saved a remarkable eleven set points en route to closing out an opening set that couldn’t have been any closer.

The second also went to a tiebreak as little separated the pair before the Hungarian got over the line by also taking the second breaker.

Marozsan, ranked No 37, will play No 21 seed Francisco Cerundolo 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
• Corentin Moutet vs. Juncheng Shang
• Lukas Klein vs. Pablo Llamas Ruiz
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Christopher Eubanks
• Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Facundo Bagnis: wednesday
• Borna Coric vs. Benjamin Hassan: wednesday
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jack Draper: wednesday
• Luciano Darderi beat Gael Monfils: 6-4, 6-2
• Luca Van Assche beat Zizou Bergs (WC): 6-4, 6-7, 6-1
• 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