Madrid Masters: O’Connell battles past Krajinovic
Christopher O’Connell won against Filip Krajinovic 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2 on Thursday and will face No 8 seed Taylor Fritz in the next round
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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.
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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