Madrid Masters: Cerundolo moves into last 16

Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 21 seed, reached the last 16 of the Madrid Masters by winning against American Tommy Paul, the No 15 seed, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-2 at the Caja Magica on Sunday evening.

Cerundolo, ranked No 22, will play the winner of the match between Canadian Denis Shapovalov and German Alexander Zverev, the No 4 seed, next.

The Argentinian beat Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (6-2, 7-6 (5)) ahead of his victory.

In the previous round of the Madrid tournament, Paul, ranked No 16, edged out Slovak qualifier Lukas Klein (6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4).

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
• Jakub Mensik vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Rafael Nadal vs. Pedro Cachin
• Cameron Norrie vs. Casper Ruud
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Daniil Medvedev vs. Sebastian Korda
• Alexander Bublik vs. Ben Shelton
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Alexander Zverev
• 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