Madrid Masters: Diallo wins battle of lucky losers, beats Majchrzak to make third round
Gabriel Diallo edged out Kamil Majchrzak 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 on Saturday afternoon. He’ll face Cameron Norrie in the next round
Diallo, Madrid Open, 2025 Chryslène Caillaud / PsnewZ
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
