Miami Open: Halys saves three match points and shocks De Minaur for his first top 20 win

Frenchman Quentin Halys moved into the third round of the Miami Masters by edging out Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 15 seed, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8) at the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday evening.

The victory marks the first top 20 win of Halys’ career, in his seventh match against a top 20 player.

The Frenchman save a total of three match points – one in the second set while serving at 4-5, 30-40, and two more in the deciding-set tiebreak, at 6-5 and 8-7.

Halys, ranked No 79, will play American Mackenzie McDonald next.

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Ahead of his victory, the Frenchman defeated Spaniard Pedro Martinez (6-2, 7-6 (4)).

Miami Masters, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Ben Shelton
• Karen Khachanov vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Yosuke Watanuki vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Gregoire Barrere vs. Cameron Norrie
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Daniel Evans vs. Lorenzo Sonego: saturday
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Thiago Monteiro: saturday
• Alex Molcan beat Yoshihito Nishioka (28): 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-2
• Mackenzie McDonald beat Matteo Berrettini (19): 7-6 (8), 7-6 (5)
• Cristian Garin (Q) beat Sebastian Baez (27): 7-6 (2), 6-3
• Jiri Lehecka beat Lorenzo Musetti (18): 6-4, 6-4
• Richard Gasquet vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Francisco Cerundolo (25) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (LL): 6-4, 6-4
• Christopher Eubanks (Q) beat Borna Coric (17): 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Taro Daniel (WC) beat Alexander Zverev (13): 6-0, 6-4
• Holger Rune (7) beat Marton Fucsovics: 6-3, 7-5
• Casper Ruud (3) beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 6-3
• Dusan Lajovic beat Maxime Cressy (30): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (20) beat Brandon Nakashima: 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Grigor Dimitrov (21) beat Jan-Lennard Struff (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Facundo Bagnis: 6-0, 6-2
• Miomir Kecmanovic (29) beat Ugo Humbert: 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3)
• Taylor Fritz (9) beat Emilio Nava (WC): 6-4, 6-1
• Tommy Paul (16) beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
• Botic van de Zandschulp (26) beat Alexei Popyrin: 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Diego Schwartzman (31) beat Yibing Wu: 7-6 (1), 6-1
• Jannik Sinner (10) beat Laslo Djere: 6-4, 6-2
• Andrey Rublev (6) beat J.J. Wolf: 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Roberto Bautista Agut (22): 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Denis Shapovalov (24) beat Guido Pella: 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

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