Miami Masters: Top seed Zverev advances to third round
Alexander Zverev won against Jacob Fearnley 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday and will play the winner of the match between Australian Jordan Thompson and Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, the No 28 seed, in the next round
Alexander Zverev
German Alexander Zverev, the top seed, moved into the third round of the Miami Masters by defeating qualifier Jacob Fearnley 6-2, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday.
Zverev, ranked No 2, will play the winner of the match between Australian Jordan Thompson and Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, the No 28 seed, next.
He is now the German man with the most Masters 1000 wins since the start of the format in 1990.
Fearnley, ranked No 83, edged out Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi (7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-4) in the previous round of the Miami Open.
Miami Masters 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 9.193.540, most recent results first):
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Alex De Minaur vs. Yunchaokete Bu
- Arthur Fils vs. Gabriel Diallo
- Zizou Bergs vs. Andrey Rublev
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Hugo Gaston
- Joao Fonseca vs. Ugo Humbert
- Jakub Mensik vs. Jack Draper
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Roman Safiullin
- Holger Rune vs. Reilly Opelka
- Thiago Agustin Tirante vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Jordan Thompson vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: saturday
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Tomas Machac: saturday
- Taylor Fritz vs. Lorenzo Sonego: saturday
- Chak Lam Coleman Wong (WC) beat Ben Shelton (13): 7-6 (3), 2-6, 7-6 (5)
- Adam Walton (LL) beat Luciano Darderi: 6-4, 6-4
- David Goffin beat Carlos Alcaraz (2): 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
- Francisco Cerundolo (23) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-1, 6-2
- Tommy Paul (12) beat Alexander Bublik: 5-7, 7-5, 6-4
- Sebastian Korda (24) beat Eliot Spizzirri (WC): 6-4, 6-2
- Brandon Nakashima (31) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Alejandro Tabilo (30) beat Corentin Moutet: 5-7, 6-3, 7-5
- Novak Djokovic (4) beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-0, 7-6 (1)
- Gael Monfils beat Jiri Lehecka (26): 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (8)
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (9) beat Chun-Hsin Tseng (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Jaume Munar beat Daniil Medvedev (7): 6-2, 6-3
- Camilo Ugo Carabelli (LL) beat Alex Michelsen (32): 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-3
- Karen Khachanov (22) beat Nick Kyrgios: 7-6 (3), 6-0
- Grigor Dimitrov (14) beat Federico Cina (WC): 6-1, 6-4
- Casper Ruud (5) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (18) beat Tristan Schoolkate (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Lorenzo Musetti (15) beat Quentin Halys: 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5
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