Madrid Masters: Cobolli reaches third round as Rune retires injured

Italian Flavio Cobolli advanced to the third round of the Madrid Masters when Dane Holger Rune, the No 8 seed, retired at the Caja Mágica.

Cobolli, ranked No 36, led 6-2 when Rune, ranked No 9, pulled out on Friday evening at the Caja Mágica.

The 22-year-old Italian will play American Brandon Nakashima, the No 31 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Madrid tournament, Flavio Cobolli won against Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (7-6 (4), 7-5).

Madrid Masters 1000, other second-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):

• Joao Fonseca vs. Tommy Paul
• Jack Draper vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Luciano Darderi
• Karen Khachanov vs. Reilly Opelka
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Novak Djokovic
• Alexandre Muller vs. Ugo Humbert
• Marcos Giron vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Jacob Fearnley vs. Tomas Machac
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Gabriel Diallo vs. Kamil Majchrzak
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Cameron Norrie
• Alex De Minaur vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Kei Nishikori vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Sebastian Baez vs. Damir Dzumhur
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (28) beat Nuno Borges: 6-2, 6-3
• Gael Monfils vs. Andrey Rublev
• Ben Shelton (12) beat Mariano Navone: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Brandon Nakashima beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Taylor Fritz (3) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-1, 6-4
• Alexander Zverev (1) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-2, 6-2
• Jakub Mensik (22) beat Ethan Quinn (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-1
• Sebastian Korda (23) beat Federico Cina (WC): 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
• Alexander Bublik beat Alexei Popyrin (25): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (18): 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Daniil Medvedev vs. Laslo Djere
• Casper Ruud (14) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-3, 6-4
• Benjamin Bonzi beat Hubert Hurkacz (27): 6-4, 7-5
• Francisco Comesana beat Arthur Fils (13): 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Harold Mayot (Q): 6-3, 6-4