Madrid Masters: Gasquet’s 1000th match ends in loss to Sonego
Gasquet joins Djokovic, Nadal and Verdasco on the list of active players to play 1,000 ATP matches
Richard Gasquet, Madrid 2024
Richard Gasquet became only the fourth active player to play 1,000 matches on the ATP Tour on Thursday but the Frenchman went down to Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego in the first round of the Madrid Masters.
Gasquet joins Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco on the list of active players to achieve the milestone of 1,000 ATP matches.
The Italian moved into the second round with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Gasquet, who came through the qualifying draw, at the Caja Magica on Thursday.
Sonego, ranked No 52, will play top seed and fellow Italian Jannik Sinner next.
Madrid Masters 1000, other first-round matches (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7,877,020):
- Pedro Cachin beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 6-3
- Tomas Machac beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
- Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Flavio Cobolli beat Alejandro Tabilo: 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
- Denis Shapovalov beat Facundo Diaz Acosta: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Juncheng Shang (WC) beat Corentin Moutet (Q): 6-7 (9), 6-2, 7-6 (10)
- Lukas Klein (Q) beat Pablo Llamas Ruiz (Q): 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
- Botic van de Zandschulp beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-3, 6-3
- Facundo Bagnis (Q) beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Borna Coric beat Benjamin Hassan (Q): 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-3
- Jack Draper beat Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
- Fabian Marozsan beat Aslan Karatsev: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (2)
- Luciano Darderi beat Gael Monfils: 6-4, 6-2
- Luca Van Assche beat Zizou Bergs (WC): 6-4, 6-7, 6-1
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
- Daniel Altmaier beat Martin Landaluce (WC): 6-1, 7-5
- Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-4
- Jaume Munar beat Nuno Borges: 7-5, 6-4
- Mariano Navone beat Alexei Popyrin: 7-5, 6-2
- Taro Daniel beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1
- Dominik Koepfer vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Darwin Blanch vs. Rafael Nadal
- Alex Michelsen vs. Joao Fonseca
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Hamad Medjedovic
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Pavel Kotov
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Jakub Mensik
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Thiago Monteiro
- Max Purcell vs. Marcos Giron
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