Madrid Masters: Tiafoe reaches last 16

American Frances Tiafoe, the No 16 seed, defeated Frenchman Alexandre Muller 6-3, 6-3 to move into the last 16 of the Madrid Masters at the Caja Mágica on Tuesday.

Tiafoe, ranked No 17, will play Italian Matteo Arnaldi next.

Ahead of his victory, the American benefited from the abandonment of Italian Luciano Darderi (7-5, 3-1).

Muller, ranked No 39, benefited from the abandonment of Belgian David Goffin (6-3, 3-6, 1-0) and edged out No 21 seed Ugo Humbert (6-2, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5)) earlier in the tournament.

Madrid Masters 1000, other third-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):

• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Jack Draper vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Jacob Fearnley
• Cameron Norrie vs. Gabriel Diallo
• Alex De Minaur vs. Denis Shapovalov: tuesday
• Karen Khachanov vs. Tommy Paul: tuesday
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Damir Dzumhur: 6-3, 6-4
• Casper Ruud (14) beat Sebastian Korda (23): 6-3, 6-3
• Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Francisco Comesana: 6-4, 6-4
• Jakub Mensik (22) beat Ben Shelton (12): 6-1, 6-4
• Taylor Fritz (3) beat Benjamin Bonzi: 4-6, 7-5 ret.
• Daniil Medvedev (9) beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Alexander Zverev (1) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (28): 2-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6
• Brandon Nakashima (31) beat Flavio Cobolli: 7-5, 6-3
• Alexander Bublik beat Andrey Rublev (7): 6-4, 0-6, 6-4