Madrid Masters: Ruud advances to third round
Casper Ruud defeated Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 6-4 on Friday and will face the winner of the match between American Sebastian Korda, the No 23 seed, and Italian wildcard Federico Cina in the next round
Casper Ruud – Michael Baucher / Panoramic
Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 14 seed, defeated Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 6-4 to move into the third round of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Mágica on Friday.
Ruud, ranked No 15, will face the winner of the match between American Sebastian Korda, the No 23 seed, and Italian wildcard Federico Cina next.
Rinderknech, ranked No 76, won against Russian Roman Safiullin (7-6 (4), 6-1) in the previous round of the tournament.
Madrid Masters 1000, other second-round matches (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Gabriel Diallo vs. Kamil Majchrzak
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Cameron Norrie
- Jacob Fearnley vs. Tomas Machac
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Kei Nishikori vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Alex De Minaur vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Novak Djokovic
- Sebastian Baez vs. Damir Dzumhur
- Alexandre Muller vs. Ugo Humbert
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Luciano Darderi
- Joao Fonseca vs. Tommy Paul
- Karen Khachanov vs. Reilly Opelka
- Marcos Giron vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Jack Draper vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Holger Rune
- Gael Monfils vs. Andrey Rublev
- Nuno Borges vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Ben Shelton vs. Mariano Navone
- Taylor Fritz vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Ethan Quinn vs. Jakub Mensik
- Alexander Zverev vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Sebastian Korda vs. Federico Cina
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Alexander Bublik
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Laslo Djere
- Benjamin Bonzi vs. Hubert Hurkacz: friday
- Francisco Comesana vs. Arthur Fils: friday
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Harold Mayot: friday
