Madrid Masters: Auger-Aliassime moves into last 16 as Mensik retires
Felix Auger-Aliassime benefited from the abandonment of Jakub Mensik (6-1, 1-0) on Monday evening. He’ll face the winner of the match between No 29 seed Cameron Norrie and Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 5 seed, in the next round
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Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the last 16 of the Madrid Masters when Jakub Mensik retired on Monday evening at the Caja Magica.
Auger-Aliassime, ranked No 35, led 6-1, 1-0 when Mensik, ranked No 74, pulled out on Monday evening at the Caja Magica, having struggled with injury.
The Canadian will face the winner of the match between No 29 seed Cameron Norrie and Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 5 seed, next.
Felix Auger-Aliassime edged out Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (4-6, 6-1, 6-4) and won against Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, the No 19 seed (6-0, 6-4) earlier in the tournament.
In the previous rounds of the Madrid tournament, Jakub Mensik defeated German Yannick Hanfmann (6-4, 7-6 (3)) and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 9 seed (6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3).
Madrid Masters 1000, other third-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Jannik Sinner vs. Pavel Kotov
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Karen Khachanov
- Cameron Norrie vs. Casper Ruud: monday
- Rafael Nadal vs. Pedro Cachin: monday
- Daniil Medvedev (3) beat Sebastian Korda (25): 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Jiri Lehecka (30) beat Thiago Monteiro (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (7)
- Alexander Bublik (17) beat Ben Shelton (14): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Alexander Zverev (4) beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-4, 7-5
- Francisco Cerundolo (21) beat Tommy Paul (15): 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-2
- Taylor Fritz (12) beat Sebastian Baez (18): 6-2, 6-3
- Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-3, 6-3
- Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Andrey Rublev (7) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (27): 7-6 (10), 6-4
- Jan-Lennard Struff (23) beat Ugo Humbert (13): 7-5, 6-4
- Tallon Griekspoor (24) beat Holger Rune (11): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
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