Berdych Reaches Madrid Third Round

Eighth seed Tomas Berdych, the 2012 runner-up, swept past qualifier Denis Istomin 6-3, 6-3 in 69 minutes on Wednesday for a place in the Mutua Madrid Open third round. Having recorded his 20th match win at the tournament (20-11), Berdych goes onto face ninth seed David Ferrer or qualifier Denis Kudla.

Later, Roberto Bautista Agut, the No. 15 seed, battled hard to beat fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez for the first time, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 in two hours and 57 minutes. Lopez had previously beaten Bautista Agut at the 2014 Rogers Cup in Toronto and this year’s BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.