Miami Masters: Sonego defeats Evans to push through to third round

Italian Lorenzo Sonego reached the third round of the Miami Masters by defeating No 23 seed Daniel Evans 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday evening.

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Sonego, ranked No 59, will play the winner of the match between Japanese qualifier Yosuke Watanuki and American Frances Tiafoe, the No 12 seed, next.

The Italian won against Austrian wildcard Dominic Thiem (7-6 (7), 6-2) in the previous round of the Miami Open.

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

• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Karen Khachanov vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Yosuke Watanuki vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Gregoire Barrere vs. Cameron Norrie
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Ben Shelton
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis: saturday
• Felix Auger-Aliassime (5) beat Thiago Monteiro: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8)
• Quentin Halys beat Alex De Minaur (15): 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8)
• 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