Miami Masters: O’Connell upsets Tiafoe to make third round
Christopher O’Connell beat Frances Tiafoe 7-5, 7-6 (5). He’ll face wildcard Martin Damm in the next round
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Australian Christopher O’Connell edged past American home hope Frances Tiafoe, the No 21 seed, 7-5, 7-6 (5) to advance to the third round of the Miami Masters at the Hard Rock Stadium.
O’Connell, ranked No 66, will face wildcard Martin Damm next.
In the previous round of the Miami Open, the Australian defeated qualifier Vit Kopriva (6-2, 6-4).
Miami Masters 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 10.404.205, most recent results first):
- Martin Landaluce vs. Ben Shelton
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Adrian Mannarino
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Holger Rune
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Alex De Minaur vs. SoonWoo Kwon
- Laslo Djere vs. Karen Khachanov
- Alexander Zverev vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
- Gael Monfils vs. Jordan Thompson
- Carlos Alcaraz vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Daniel Evans vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Roman Safiullin
- Cameron Norrie vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Andrea Vavassori vs. Jannik Sinner
- Marton Fucsovics vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Casper Ruud vs. Luca Van Assche
- Sebastian Korda vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Alexander Bublik vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Juncheng Shang vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: saturday
- Andy Murray vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: saturday
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas: saturday
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Taylor Fritz: saturday
- Dominik Koepfer beat Sebastian Baez (18): 6-3, 6-2
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Alex Michelsen: saturday
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Jack Draper: saturday
- Martin Damm 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
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