In the second round, wait for Fucsovics a duel with the Frenchman Gaël Monfils (ATP 18), the fifteenth seed in the Spanish capital. Monfils won his first match in two short sets (6-3 and 6-1) of the Italian Andreas Seppi (ATP 67).
Goffin appeared last week in Estoril, finally the good form to have found. The Belgian number one was only in the semi-finals against topreekshoofd Stefanos Tsitsipas (ATP 9). Previously, he had on the graveltoernooien in Monte Carlo (second round) and Barcelona (first round) soon to pack.
Goffin was the only belgian on the main table in Madrid.
About 15 minutes ago wanted to tweet that @David__Goffin was doing a lot of things right. He just lost the first set 4-6 to Marton Fucsovics from 4-0 up...#MutuaMadridOpen
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R1 Madrid: @David__Goffin vs Marton Fucsovics 4-6, 5-7. Goffin plays well, fights well, has a good attitude but doesn't win (enough) matches...#MutuaMadridOpen
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Djokovic by simply Novak Djokovic came without much difficulty for the third round in Madrid. On the Spanish clay defeated the Serbian number one of the world the American Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-2. Fritz, 57th in the world ranking, was in the first round is still responsible for the elimination of the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov. Djokovic, who is as yet not a great year there, won by a break in the seventh game of the first set. After 1.05am' used the 31-year-old Serb his first matchpunt.