Madrid Masters: Molcan books spot in second round

Slovak Alex Molcan defeated Chinese Yibing Wu 6-2, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Magica on Wednesday.

Molcan, ranked No 58, will face No 28 seed Yoshihito Nishioka 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
• Maxime Cressy vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. David Goffin
• Alexander Bublik vs. Daniel Elahi Galan
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Quentin Halys: wednesday
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Ilya Ivashka: wednesday
• Hugo Gaston (WC) beat Jeremy Chardy: 6-3, 6-4
• Gregoire Barrere beat Emilio Nava (WC): 6-0, 5-7, 6-3