Madrid Masters: Van Assche beats Bergs to book spot in second round
Luca Van Assche defeated Zizou Bergs 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 on Wednesday afternoon. He’ll face No 18 seed Sebastian Baez in the next round
Van Assche, Rome, 2023 AI / Reuters / Panoramic
Frenchman Luca Van Assche moved into the second round of the Madrid Masters by beating Belgian wildcard Zizou Bergs 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 at the Caja Magica.
Van Assche, ranked No 99, will play No 18 seed Sebastian Baez next.
Madrid Masters 1000, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- 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
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Thiago Monteiro
- Max Purcell vs. Marcos Giron
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Richard Gasquet vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Pedro Cachin vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Tomas Machac vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
- Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Corentin Moutet vs. Juncheng Shang
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Facundo Bagnis
- Lukas Klein vs. Pablo Llamas Ruiz
- Borna Coric vs. Benjamin Hassan: wednesday
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jack Draper: wednesday
- Aslan Karatsev vs. Fabian Marozsan: wednesday
- Luciano Darderi beat Gael Monfils: 6-4, 6-2
- 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
