Madrid Masters: Arnaldi reaches second round, faces Djokovic next
Matteo Arnaldi edged out Borna Coric 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday and will face No 4 seed Novak Djokovic in the next round
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Italian Matteo Arnaldi advanced to the second round of the Madrid Masters by edging out Croat qualifier Borna Coric 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 at the Caja Mágica on Thursday.
Arnaldi, ranked No 44, will face No 4 seed Novak Djokovic next.
Madrid Masters 1000, other first-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Yunchaokete Bu vs. Jacob Fearnley
- Reilly Opelka vs. Rinky Hijikata
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Vit Kopriva
- Learner Tien vs. Marcos Giron: thursday
- Joao Fonseca vs. Elmer Moller: thursday
- Jan-Lennard Struff beat Botic van de Zandschulp (LL): 7-5, 2-6, 4-1 ret.
- Cameron Norrie beat Martin Landaluce (WC): 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-4
- Nicolas Jarry beat Daniel Altmaier (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Luciano Darderi beat Quentin Halys: 6-4, 6-4
- Lorenzo Sonego beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Gabriel Diallo (LL) beat Zizou Bergs: 6-1, 6-2
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Hamad Medjedovic: 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4
- Kei Nishikori beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Damir Dzumhur beat Mattia Bellucci: 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Alexandre Muller beat David Goffin: 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 ret.
- Flavio Cobolli beat Fabian Marozsan: 7-6 (4), 7-5
- Gael Monfils beat Borna Gojo (Q): 1-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Alexander Bublik beat Alex Michelsen: 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4)
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Laslo Djere beat Fabio Fognini (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Francisco Comesana beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 6-4, 6-4
- Sebastian Ofner beat Hugo Gaston (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Roberto Bautista Agut beat Jaume Munar: 6-4, 2-6, 6-3
- Ethan Quinn (Q) beat Dusan Lajovic (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Harold Mayot (Q) beat Corentin Moutet: 6-3, 4-2 ret.
- Nuno Borges beat Pablo Carreno Busta (WC): 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Benjamin Bonzi beat Marin Cilic (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- Christopher O’Connell beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli: 6-3, 6-4
- Arthur Rinderknech beat Roman Safiullin: 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Federico Cina (WC) beat Chak Lam Coleman Wong (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-1
- Mariano Navone beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 6-4, 6-4
