Madrid Masters: Garin reaches third round, plays Fritz next
Cristian Garin edged out Miomir Kecmanovic 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 6-4 on Saturday evening. He’ll play American Taylor Fritz, the No 8 seed, in the next round
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Chilean Cristian Garin edged out Serb Miomir Kecmanovic, the No 27 seed, 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 6-4 to move into the third round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica on Saturday evening.
Garin, ranked No 73, will play American Taylor Fritz, the No 8 seed, next.
The Chilean beat Swiss Marc-Andrea Huesler (7-6 (5), 6-2) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.
Madrid Masters, other second-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Dominic Thiem vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Zhizhen Zhang: saturday
- Yosuke Watanuki vs. Cameron Norrie: saturday
- Pedro Cachin beat Francisco Cerundolo (24): 6-1, 7-6 (6)
- Frances Tiafoe (9) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Taylor Fritz beat Christopher O’Connell: 7-6 (11), 6-4
- Sebastian Baez (25) beat Marcos Giron: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles beat Daniel Evans (19): 6-3, 6-2
- Alex De Minaur (16) beat Marco Cecchinato (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Dusan Lajovic beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (7): 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- Aslan Karatsev (Q) beat Botic van de Zandschulp (23): 6-2, 7-5
- Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Tommy Paul (14): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Andrea Vavassori (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Alexander Shevchenko (Q) beat Jiri Lehecka (31): 6-1, 6-1
- Jan-Lennard Struff (LL) beat Ben Shelton (32): 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5
- Alexander Zverev (13) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-0
- Holger Rune (6) beat Alexander Bublik: 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (9)
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (29) beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas: 6-3, 6-4
- Hubert Hurkacz (12) beat Richard Gasquet: 6-7 (9), 6-4, 7-5
- Hugo Grenier (Q) beat Sebastian Korda (22): 7-6 (5), 7-6 (7)
- Borna Coric (17) beat Hugo Gaston (WC): 6-3, 6-3
- Roberto Bautista Agut (20) beat Quentin Halys: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (10) beat Thiago Monteiro: 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
- Grigor Dimitrov (26) beat Gregoire Barrere: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (2)
- Andrey Rublev (5) beat Stan Wawrinka: 7-5, 6-4
- Yannick Hanfmann (Q) beat Lorenzo Musetti (15): 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Daniel Altmaier (LL) beat Oscar Otte: 6-4, 7-5
- Jaume Munar beat Tallon Griekspoor (30): 7-6 (3) ret.
- Matteo Arnaldi (Q) beat Casper Ruud (3): 6-3, 6-4
- Yoshihito Nishioka (28) beat Alex Molcan: 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
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