Australian Open: Van Assche upsets Musetti to reach third round
Luca Van Assche beat Lorenzo Musetti 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0 on Wednesday night and will play the winner of the match between Australian Jordan Thompson and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 7 seed, in the next round
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Frenchman Luca Van Assche advanced to the third round of the Australian Open by defeating Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 25 seed, 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0 at Melbourne Park.
Van Assche, ranked No 79, will play the winner of the match between Australian Jordan Thompson and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 7 seed, next.
Ahead of his victory, the 19-year-old Frenchman won against Australian wildcard James Duckworth (6-7 (2), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3).
Musetti, ranked No 28, beat Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi (7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-2) in the previous round.
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
- Sebastian Korda vs. Quentin Halys: wednesday
- Jordan Thompson vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas: wednesday
- Gael Monfils vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: wednesday
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Tomas Machac: wednesday
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Jaume Munar: wednesday
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Ben Shelton: wednesday
- 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 (15) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q): 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
- 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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