Madrid Masters: Arnaldi makes last 16 amid power failure
Matteo Arnaldi defeated Damir Dzumhur 6-3, 6-4 on Monday. He’ll face the winner of the match between American Frances Tiafoe, the No 16 seed, and Frenchman Alexandre Muller in the next round
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Italian Matteo Arnaldi won against Bosnian Damir Dzumhur 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the last 16 of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Mágica on Monday.
Arnaldi, ranked No 44, will face the winner of the match between American Frances Tiafoe, the No 16 seed, and Frenchman Alexandre Muller next.
The match had to be finished with umpire Mohamed Lahyani calling the lines himself after a power outage caused a blackout at the venue.
Ahead of his victory, the Italian edged out Croat qualifier Borna Coric (4-6, 6-4, 7-5) and defeated Serb Novak Djokovic, the No 4 seed (6-3, 6-4).
Dzumhur, ranked No 63, won against Italian Mattia Bellucci (4-6, 6-4, 6-2) and Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 32 seed (1-6, 6-1, 6-2) in the previous rounds of the Madrid tournament.
Madrid Masters 1000, other third-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Alex De Minaur vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Jack Draper vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Cameron Norrie vs. Gabriel Diallo
- Karen Khachanov vs. Tommy Paul
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Alexandre Muller
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Jacob Fearnley
- Casper Ruud (14) beat Sebastian Korda (23): 6-3, 6-3
- Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Francisco Comesana: 6-4, 6-4
- Jakub Mensik (22) beat Ben Shelton (12): 6-1, 6-4
- Taylor Fritz (3) beat Benjamin Bonzi: 4-6, 7-5 ret.
- Daniil Medvedev (9) beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Alexander Zverev (1) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (28): 2-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6
- Brandon Nakashima (31) beat Flavio Cobolli: 7-5, 6-3
- Alexander Bublik beat Andrey Rublev (7): 6-4, 0-6, 6-4
