Australian Open: Tiafoe stunned by Machac as Czech makes third round
Tomas Machac won against Frances Tiafoe 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (5) on Wednesday night. He’ll face Russian Karen Khachanov, the No 15 seed, in the next round
Tomas Machac © imago / Panoramic
Tomas Machac won against American Frances Tiafoe, the No 17 seed, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (5) to move into the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.
Machac, ranked No 75, will face Russian Karen Khachanov, the No 15 seed, next.
Tomas Machac beat Japanese lucky loser Shintaro Mochizuki (7-5, 6-1, 7-5) in the previous round.
In the previous round, Tiafoe, ranked No 17, won against Croat Borna Coric (6-3, 7-6 (7), 2-6, 6-3).
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Holger Rune vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Hugo Grenier
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Jakub Mensik vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Arthur Fils vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Sumit Nagal vs. Juncheng Shang
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Ugo Humbert vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Nuno Borges vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Tommy Paul vs. Jack Draper
- Max Purcell vs. Casper Ruud
- Cameron Norrie vs. Giulio Zeppieri
- Alex Michelsen vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Alexander Zverev vs. Lukas Klein
- Novak Djokovic vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Christopher Eubanks vs. Andrey Rublev: wednesday
- Sebastian Korda vs. Quentin Halys: wednesday
- Jordan Thompson vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas: wednesday
- Gael Monfils vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: wednesday
- Adrian Mannarino (20) beat Jaume Munar: 6-3, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6, 6-3
- Ben Shelton (16) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- Fabian Marozsan beat Francisco Cerundolo (22): 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2
- Taylor Fritz (12) beat Hugo Gaston (LL): 6-0, 6-3, 6-1
- Karen Khachanov beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q): 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
- Luca Van Assche beat Lorenzo Musetti (25): 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0
- Flavio Cobolli (Q) beat Pavel Kotov: 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
- Sebastian Baez (26) beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 7-5, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Alex De Minaur (10) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-3, 6-0, 6-3
- Jannik Sinner (4) beat Jesper De Jong (Q): 6-2, 6-2, 6-2
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