Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo superior to the second spherical of qualifying on the Madrid Open tennis event with a snug 6-3, 6-3 win over American Nicolas Moreno De Alboran on Monday.
The 23-year-old Diallo, seeded third within the qualifying event for the ATP Masters clay-court occasion, had 9 aces to Moreno de Alboran’s one.
The six-foot-eight Canadian saved the one break level he confronted by changing three of the seven probabilities he had, together with one within the deciding recreation.
Diallo will face Croatian veteran Borna Coric on Tuesday for a spot in the primary draw. Coric defeated Finland’s Otto Virtanen 6-7 (1), 7-5, 6-2 on Monday.
Diallo, ranked 78th on the planet, made it into two straight Masters-level foremost attracts final month at Indian Wells, Calif., and Miami, dropping to France’s Arthur Fils within the second spherical each instances.
Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal (18) and Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., (29) each have byes within the first spherical of the primary attract Madrid as seeded gamers.
Within the girls’s draw, Twenty fifth-seed Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., has a first-round bye whereas 2019 U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., continues her comeback from damage when she faces American McCartney Kessler in a first-round match on Wednesday.
