Miami Masters: Van Assche makes second round, plays Ruud next

Frenchman Luca van Assche reached the second round of the Miami Masters by winning against Russian Pavel Kotov 6-3, 7-5 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday evening.

Van Assche, ranked No 80, will play No 7 seed Casper Ruud next.

Miami Masters 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 10.404.205, most recent results first):

• Alex Michelsen vs. Lukas Klein
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Harold Mayot
• Alexandre Muller vs. SoonWoo Kwon
• Laslo Djere vs. Chak Lam Coleman Wong
• Sebastian Ofner vs. Kei Nishikori
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Daniel Evans
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Adam Walton
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Alexander Shevchenko
• Emilio Nava vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Martin Landaluce vs. Jaume Munar
• Roman Safiullin vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Gael Monfils
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Marcos Giron vs. Dominik Koepfer
• Arthur Fils vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Martin Damm vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Juncheng Shang
• Andy Murray vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Pedro Cachin vs. Andrea Vavassori
• Max Purcell vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Nuno Borges
• Tomas Machac vs. Darwin Blanch
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Vit Kopriva
• Jack Draper vs. Taro Daniel
• Luciano Darderi vs. Denis Shapovalov: wednesday
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Botic van de Zandschulp: wednesday