Miami Masters: Monfils shows off shots to make second round
Gael Monfils beat Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Thursday night. He’ll play No 33 seed Jordan Thompson in the next round
Credit: Julien Nouet / Tennis Majors
Gael Monfils won against Serb Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (5), 6-4 to move into the second round of the Miami Masters at the Hard Rock Stadium.
The Frenchman was in some kind of mood on Thursday night, lighting up the court with incredible shot-making across the course of the one hour, 33 minute victory.
Monfils, ranked No 47, will play No 33 seed Jordan Thompson next.
Miami Masters 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 10.404.205, most recent results first):
- Roman Safiullin vs. Diego Schwartzman: friday
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Alexander Shevchenko: thursday
- Alexei Popyrin beat Facundo Diaz Acosta: 6-2, 6-2
- Roberto Bautista Agut (Q) beat Emilio Nava (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Aleksandar Vukic: 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Martin Landaluce (WC) beat Jaume Munar: 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
- Yannick Hanfmann beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- Fabian Marozsan beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- SoonWoo Kwon beat Alexandre Muller: 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Daniel Evans beat Lorenzo Sonego: 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Sebastian Ofner beat Kei Nishikori (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Alejandro Tabilo beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Adam Walton (Q): 7-5, 6-4
- Daniel Altmaier beat Harold Mayot (Q): 6-2, 7-5
- Laslo Djere beat Chak Lam Coleman Wong (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Dominik Koepfer beat Marcos Giron: 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Alex Michelsen beat Lukas Klein (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Arthur Fils: 6-3, 6-4
- Martin Damm (WC) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3)
- Juncheng Shang (WC) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (5)
- Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q) beat Nuno Borges: 6-4, 7-5
- Andy Murray beat Matteo Berrettini: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Andrea Vavassori (Q) beat Pedro Cachin: 6-2, 6-2
- Marton Fucsovics beat Max Purcell: 6-2, 6-1
- Tomas Machac beat Darwin Blanch (WC): 6-4, 6-2
- Flavio Cobolli beat Yoshihito Nishioka (LL): 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Christopher O’Connell beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Jack Draper beat Taro Daniel: 6-3, 6-2
- Denis Shapovalov beat Luciano Darderi: 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-4
- Botic van de Zandschulp beat Rinky Hijikata: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Luca Van Assche beat Pavel Kotov: 6-3, 7-5
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