Madrid Masters: O’Connell battles past Krajinovic

Australian Christopher O’Connell reached the second round of the Madrid Masters by defeating Serb Filip Krajinovic 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2 at the Caja Magica on Thursday.

O’Connell, ranked No 81, will play No 8 seed Taylor Fritz next.

The Aussie has now won four of five on the clay after upsetting Alexander Zverev en route to the semi-finals last week at Munich.

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

• Aslan Karatsev vs. Laslo Djere
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles: thursday
• Jason Kubler vs. Dusan Lajovic: thursday
• Andrea Vavassori (Q) beat Andy Murray: 6-2, 7-6 (7)
• Marco Cecchinato (Q) beat Marton Fucsovics: 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Marcos Giron beat Nuno Borges: 6-2, 7-6 (7)
• Jan-Lennard Struff (LL) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-3, 6-1
• Pedro Cachin beat Abdullah Shelbayh (WC): 6-1, 6-4
• Cristian Garin beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Yosuke Watanuki (Q) beat Corentin Moutet: 6-3, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Jurij Rodionov (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-4
• Alexander Shevchenko (Q) beat J.J. Wolf: 6-4, 6-4
• Dominic Thiem (WC) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-4, 6-1
• Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Nicolas Jarry: 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 6-0
• Richard Gasquet beat Martin Landaluce (WC): 6-2, 6-1
• Thiago Monteiro beat Borna Gojo (Q): 7-6 (9), 4-6, 6-3
• Jaume Munar beat Thanasi Kokkinakis: 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3)
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Ugo Humbert: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4)
• Matteo Arnaldi (Q) beat Benoit Paire (Q): 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (6)
• Oscar Otte beat Pavel Kotov (LL): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
• Hugo Grenier (Q) beat Diego Schwartzman: 7-5, 6-4
• Stan Wawrinka beat Maxime Cressy: 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Yannick Hanfmann (Q) beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Roberto Carballes Baena beat David Goffin: 6-4, 6-4
• Alexander Bublik beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 7-6 (15), 6-7 (4), 6-4
• Quentin Halys beat Alexei Popyrin: 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Alex Molcan beat Yibing Wu: 6-2, 6-4
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas beat Ilya Ivashka: 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Hugo Gaston (WC) beat Jeremy Chardy: 6-3, 6-4
• Gregoire Barrere beat Emilio Nava (WC): 6-0, 5-7, 6-3

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