Madrid Masters: Wild card Gaston makes second round, beats compatriot Chardy

Wild card Hugo Gaston advanced to the second round of the Madrid Masters by defeating Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-4 at the Caja Magica on Wednesday.

Gaston, ranked No 106, will play No 17 seed Borna Coric next.

Madrid Masters, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):

• Andrea Vavassori vs. Andy Murray
• J.J. Wolf vs. Alexander Shevchenko
• Aslan Karatsev vs. Laslo Djere
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Marco Cecchinato
• Corentin Moutet vs. Yosuke Watanuki
• Jurij Rodionov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Cristian Garin vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Filip Krajinovic
• Kyle Edmund vs. Dominic Thiem
• Nuno Borges vs. Marcos Giron
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Roman Safiullin vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Abdullah Shelbayh vs. Pedro Cachin
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Jason Kubler vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Martin Landaluce vs. Richard Gasquet
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Borna Gojo
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Ugo Humbert
• Pavel Kotov vs. Oscar Otte
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jaume Munar
• Benoit Paire vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Hugo Grenier
• Alexander Bublik vs. Daniel Elahi Galan
• Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Maxime Cressy vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Yibing Wu vs. Alex Molcan
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Quentin Halys
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. David Goffin
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Ilya Ivashka: wednesday
• Emilio Nava vs. Gregoire Barrere: wednesday