Monte-Carlo Masters: Popyrin upsets Tiafoe to reach last 16
Alexei Popyrin defeated Frances Tiafoe 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday. He’ll play Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 4 seed, in the next round
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Australian Alexei Popyrin won against American Frances Tiafoe, the No 14 seed, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the last 16 of the Monte-Carlo Masters at the Monte-Carlo Country Club on Wednesday.
Popyrin, ranked No 27, will play Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 4 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Monte-Carlo tournament, the Australian edged out Frenchman Ugo Humbert (3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4).
Tiafoe, ranked No 17, edged out Serb Miomir Kecmanovic (6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (5)) during the first round of the Monte-Carlo tournament.
Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other second-round results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 6.128.940, most recent results first):
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Alexandre Muller: wednesday
- Valentin Vacherot vs. Grigor Dimitrov: wednesday
- Alejandro Tabilo beat Novak Djokovic (3): 6-3, 6-4
- Casper Ruud beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-2, 6-1
- Alex De Minaur (8) beat Tomas Machac: 3-6, 6-0, 6-3
- Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Francisco Cerundolo: 3-6, 6-0, 6-1
- Andrey Rublev (7) beat Gael Monfils: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Arthur Fils (12) beat Flavio Cobolli: 6-2, 6-4
- Daniel Altmaier (Q) beat Richard Gasquet (WC): 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Nuno Borges beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4
- Lorenzo Musetti (13) beat Jiri Lehecka: 1-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Jack Draper (5) beat Marcos Giron: 6-1, 6-1
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (6) beat Jordan Thompson: 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Matteo Berrettini beat Alexander Zverev (1): 2-6, 6-3, 7-5
