Madrid Masters: Muller edges past Humbert to move into third round
Alexandre Muller edged out Ugo Humbert 6-2, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5). He’ll face Frances Tiafoe in the next round
Alexandre Muller (FRA), APRIL 24, 2023 – Tennis : Alexandre Muller during qualifying singles 1st round match against Kaichi Uchida on the ATP tour Masters 1000 “Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament” at the Caja Magica in Madrid, Spain. || 264283_0005
Alexandre Muller edged out No 21 seed Ugo Humbert 6-2, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5) to move into the third round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Mágica.
Muller, ranked No 39, will play the winner of the match between American Frances Tiafoe, the No 16 seed, and Italian Luciano Darderi next.
Alexandre Muller benefited from the abandonment of Belgian David Goffin (6-3, 3-6, 1-0) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.
Madrid Masters 1000, other second-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Joao Fonseca vs. Tommy Paul
- Karen Khachanov vs. Reilly Opelka
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Luciano Darderi: saturday
- Jack Draper vs. Tallon Griekspoor: saturday
- Marcos Giron vs. Matteo Berrettini: saturday
- Grigor Dimitrov (15) beat Nicolas Jarry: 6-3, 6-4
- Jacob Fearnley (Q) beat Tomas Machac (19): 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Novak Djokovic (4): 6-3, 6-4
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (17) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Gabriel Diallo (LL) beat Kamil Majchrzak (LL): 7-5, 4-6, 6-4
- Alex De Minaur (6) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-2, 6-3
- Cameron Norrie beat Jiri Lehecka (26): 2-6, 6-4, 6-0
- Damir Dzumhur beat Sebastian Baez (32): 1-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Lorenzo Musetti (10) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Denis Shapovalov (29) beat Kei Nishikori: 6-1, 6-4
- Flavio Cobolli beat Holger Rune (8): 6-2 ret.
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (28) beat Nuno Borges: 6-2, 6-3
- Gael Monfils vs. Andrey Rublev
- Ben Shelton (12) beat Mariano Navone: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Brandon Nakashima (31) beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Taylor Fritz (3) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-1, 6-4
- Alexander Zverev (1) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-2, 6-2
- Jakub Mensik (22) beat Ethan Quinn (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Sebastian Korda (23) beat Federico Cina (WC): 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
- Alexander Bublik beat Alexei Popyrin (25): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (18): 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Laslo Djere
- Casper Ruud (14) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-3, 6-4
- Benjamin Bonzi beat Hubert Hurkacz (27): 6-4, 7-5
- Francisco Comesana beat Arthur Fils (13): 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Harold Mayot (Q): 6-3, 6-4
