Toronto Masters: Defending champion Popyrin reaches the third round

Australian Alexei Popyrin, the No 18 seed and defending champion at the Canadian Open, reached the third round of the Toronto Masters by winning against Canadian wildcard Nicolas Arseneault 7-6 (7), 6-3 at the Aviva Centre on Tuesday evening.

Popyrin, ranked No 26, will face the winner of the match between Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 10 seed, and Czech lucky loser Dalibor Svrcina next.

In the previous round of the Rogers Cup, Arseneault defeated Frenchman Valentin Royer (6-3, 7-6 (4)).

Toronto Masters 1000, other second-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 9.193.540, most recent results first):

• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Taylor Fritz
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Francisco Comesana vs. Alex De Minaur
• Arthur Fils vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Corentin Moutet
• Gabriel Diallo vs. Matteo Gigante
• Tristan Boyer vs. Jakub Mensik
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Ethan Quinn
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Yosuke Watanuki
• Yunchaokete Bu vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Ben Shelton
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Alexis Galarneau
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Cameron Norrie
• Andrey Rublev vs. Hugo Gaston
• Alexander Zverev vs. Adam Walton
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Learner Tien
• Daniil Medvedev vs. Dalibor Svrcina
• Roman Safiullin vs. Casper Ruud
• Reilly Opelka vs. Tomas Machac
• Tristan Schoolkate vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Nuno Borges vs. Facundo Bagnis
• Jaume Munar vs. Francisco Cerundolo
• Tallon Griekspoor vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: tuesday
• Lorenzo Musetti (3) beat James Duckworth (Q): 7-5, 6-1
• Karen Khachanov (11) beat Juan Pablo Ficovich (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Alex Michelsen (26) beat Tomas Barrios Vera (Q): 7-6 (7), 6-3
• Holger Rune (5) beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 7-6 (7), 6-3
• Alexandre Muller (29) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 2-6, 6-3, 7-5
• Emilio Nava (Q) beat Terence Atmane (LL): 6-2, 7-5