Madrid Masters: Diallo wins battle of lucky losers, beats Majchrzak to make third round

Canadian lucky loser Gabriel Diallo advanced to the third round of the Madrid Masters by edging out Pole lucky loser Kamil Majchrzak 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 at the Caja Mágica.

It is the first time the Canadian has reached the third round at a Masters 1000 event and only his second clay-court victory at tour level.

Diallo, ranked No 78, will play Cameron Norrie next.

In the previous round of the Madrid tournament, the Canadian won against Belgian Zizou Bergs (6-1, 6-2).

Madrid Masters 1000, other second-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):

• Joao Fonseca vs. Tommy Paul
• Jack Draper vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Luciano Darderi
• Karen Khachanov vs. Reilly Opelka
• Marcos Giron vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Jacob Fearnley vs. Tomas Machac
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Novak Djokovic
• Alexandre Muller vs. Ugo Humbert
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff: saturday
• Alex De Minaur (6) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-2, 6-3
• Cameron Norrie beat Jiri Lehecka (26): 2-6, 6-4, 6-0
• Damir Dzumhur beat Sebastian Baez (32): 1-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Lorenzo Musetti (10) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Denis Shapovalov (29) beat Kei Nishikori: 6-1, 6-4
• Flavio Cobolli beat Holger Rune (8): 6-2 ret.
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (28) beat Nuno Borges: 6-2, 6-3
• Gael Monfils vs. Andrey Rublev
• Ben Shelton (12) beat Mariano Navone: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Brandon Nakashima (31) beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Taylor Fritz (3) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-1, 6-4
• Alexander Zverev (1) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-2, 6-2
• Jakub Mensik (22) beat Ethan Quinn (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-1
• Sebastian Korda (23) beat Federico Cina (WC): 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
• Alexander Bublik beat Alexei Popyrin (25): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (18): 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Daniil Medvedev vs. Laslo Djere
• Casper Ruud (14) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-3, 6-4
• Benjamin Bonzi beat Hubert Hurkacz (27): 6-4, 7-5
• Francisco Comesana beat Arthur Fils (13): 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Harold Mayot (Q): 6-3, 6-4