Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the final 16 of the Madrid Open as he cruised previous Thiago Seyboth Wild.
World quantity three Alcaraz received 6-3 6-3 in opposition to Brazil’s Seyboth Wild.
The win continues second seed Alcaraz’s dominance on the occasion, which he received in 2022 and 2023.
“At this time was the take a look at of fireside, no discomfort, feeling spectacular, from right here, we’ll be getting higher,” stated Alcaraz, 20.
The Spaniard was once more sporting a compression sleeve on his proper arm following an damage which triggered him to tug out of the Barcelona Open this month, however he confirmed no indicators of discomfort in a simple win over his unseeded opponent.
Alcaraz broke twice in every set, racing right into a 5-0 lead within the second, and regardless of a late break from Seyboth Wild the win was full in 75 minutes.
“Perhaps immediately I used to be a bit nervous about how it might be, Thiago hits the ball so exhausting, I did not understand how the forearm would maintain up,” added Alcaraz.
At 93.3%, Alcaraz holds the best win share on the Madrid Open of any participant in a single ATP-1000 occasion for the reason that introduction of the format in 1990 (minimal 10 matches performed).
The 2-time main winner will play Germany’s twenty third seed Jan-Lennard Struff within the final 16 in a repeat of the 2023 closing.
Struff, who got here into the event on the again of his win on the BMW Open in Munich final week, beat French thirteenth seed Ugo Humbert 7-5 6-4.
Elsewhere within the males’s draw, Russian seventh seed Andrey Rublev beat Spanish twenty seventh seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-6 (12-10) 6-4, whereas Polish eighth Hubert Hurkacz beat Germany’s Daniel Altmaier 6-4 7-6 (7-2).
Within the girls’s bracket Kazakh fourth seed Elena Rybakina, who won last week’s Stuttgart Open, beat Egypt’s Mayar Sherif 6-1 6-4.
She is going to face the Czech Republic’s unseeded Sara Bejlek within the fourth spherical after {the teenager} beat American Ashlyn Krueger 6-3 6-1.
Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova is out following a 7-5 6-1 defeat by 16-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva.