Toronto Masters: Ruud makes last 16

Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 8 seed, beat Portuguese Nuno Borges, the No 30 seed, 7-5, 6-4 to advance to the last 16 of the Toronto Masters at the Aviva Centre on Thursday.

Ruud, ranked No 13, will play Russian Karen Khachanov, the No 11 seed, next.

The Norwegian won against Russian Roman Safiullin (6-3, 6-3) ahead of his victory. Borges, ranked No 42, won against Argentinian qualifier Facundo Bagnis (5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-2).

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

• Brandon Nakashima vs. Ben Shelton
• Gabriel Diallo vs. Taylor Fritz
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Alex De Minaur
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Arthur Fils vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Andrey Rublev vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Jakub Mensik
• Daniil Medvedev vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Alexander Zverev vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Alexandre Muller vs. Holger Rune
• Learner Tien vs. Reilly Opelka
• Francisco Cerundolo (14) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-3, 6-4
• Alex Michelsen (26) beat Lorenzo Musetti (3): 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Karen Khachanov beat Emilio Nava (Q): 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-1