Miami Masters: Musetti knocks out Safiullin, moves through to third round
Lorenzo Musetti beat Roman Safiullin 7-5, 6-1 in Miami. He’ll play American Ben Shelton, the No 16 seed, in the next round
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Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 23 seed, reached the third round of the Miami Masters by defeating Russian Roman Safiullin 7-5, 6-1 at the Hard Rock Stadium.
Musetti, ranked No 24, will play American Ben Shelton, the No 16 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Miami Open, Safiullin, ranked No 39, won against Argentinian qualifier Diego Schwartzman (6-2, 6-4).
Miami Masters 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 10.404.205, most recent results first):
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Holger Rune
- Alex De Minaur vs. SoonWoo Kwon
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Jan-Lennard Struff (24) beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-3, 6-3
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Adrian Mannarino: sunday
- Ben Shelton beat Martin Landaluce (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Gael Monfils beat Jordan Thompson (33): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (15) beat Laslo Djere: 6-2, 6-4
- Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Sebastian Ofner: 7-6 (2), 6-7 (2), 6-1
- Christopher Eubanks (31) beat Daniel Evans: 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-6 (7)
- Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-2, 6-1
- Alexander Zverev (4) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime: 6-2, 6-4
- Sebastian Korda (28) beat Roberto Bautista Agut (Q): 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4
- Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-3
- Cameron Norrie (30) beat Flavio Cobolli: 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-2
- Daniil Medvedev (3) beat Marton Fucsovics: 6-4, 6-2
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Alexander Bublik (17): 6-4, 6-1
- Casper Ruud (7) beat Luca Van Assche: 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-1
- Jannik Sinner (2) beat Andrea Vavassori (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (27) beat Juncheng Shang (WC): 6-3, 7-5
- Andy Murray beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (29): 7-6, 6-3
- Denis Shapovalov beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (10): 6-2, 6-4
- Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q) beat Taylor Fritz (12): 6-3, 6-4
- Dominik Koepfer beat Sebastian Baez (18): 6-3, 6-2
- Christopher O’Connell beat Frances Tiafoe (21): 7-5, 7-6 (5)
- Tallon Griekspoor (25) beat Alex Michelsen: 7-6 (5), 6-7 (7), 6-4
- Nicolas Jarry (22) beat Jack Draper: 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (2)
- Martin Damm (WC) beat Tommy Paul (13): 4-6, 2-1 ret.
- Ugo Humbert (14) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-4, 6-3
- Tomas Machac beat Andrey Rublev (5): 6-4, 6-4
