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The spotlight match amongst the unseeded on this first day of main-draw play in Madrid no doubt is Stan Wawrinka vs. Maxime Cressy.

Good contrast of styles, interesting matchup. Won by Wawrinka in a third-set tiebreak.

As for the rest, look out for Benoit Paire, who came back from the brink twice in qualifying – and plays another qualifier in the first round. He looked headed for another, but ultimately fell.

ATP Madrid – Thursday, April 27, 2023 final results

(Madrid is six hours ahead of EDT).

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Mutua Madrid Open
Location: Madrid, Spain
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Category: ATP 1000 (Joint event with the WTA Tour)
Dates: April 26 – May 7, 2023
Prize money: €8,736,536
Draws: S96 – D32

Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Final results
Singles, first round

(2nd-round opponents in brackets)

Qs and WCs

[Q] Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) def [Q] Benoit Paire (FRA) 61 36 76 (6) ([3] Casper Ruud)
[Q] Yannick Hanfmann (GER) def Juan Pablo Varillas (PER) 64 36 63 ([15] Lorenzo Musetti)

[WC] Hugo Gaston (FRA) def [PR] Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 63 64 ([17] Borna Coric)

Other results (in alphabetical order)

Gregoire Barrere (FRA) def. [WC] Emilio Nava (USA) 60 57 63 ([26] Grigor Dimitrov)
Alexander Bublik (KAZ) def. Daniel Elahi Galan (COL) 76 (15) 67 (4) 64 ([6] Holger Rune)
Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) def David Goffin (BEL) 64 64 ([11] Alexander Zverev)
Richard Gasquet (FRA) def. [WC] Martin Landaluce (ESP) 62 61 ([12] Hubert Hurkacz)
Hugo Grenier (FRA) def Diego Schwartzman (ARG) 75 64 ([22] Sebastian Korda)
Quentin Halys (FRA) def Alexei Popyrin (AUS) 46 64 64 ([20] Roberto Bautista Agut)
Alex Molcan (SVK) def. Yibing Wu (CHN) 62 64 ([28] Yoshihito Nishioka)
Thiago Monteiro (BRA) def [Q] Borna Gojo (CRO) 76 (9) 46 63 ([10] Thiago Monteiro)
Jaume Munar (ESP) def. Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) 76 (7) 76 (3) ([30] Tallon Griekspoor)
Oscar Otte (GER) def. [LL] Pavel Kotov (RUS) 63 46 64 ([18] Pablo Carreño Busta)
Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) def. Ilya Ivashka (BLR) 46 76 (3) 62 ([29] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina)
Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN) def. Ugo Humbert (FRA) 76 (6) 76 (4) ([1] Carlos Alcaraz)
Stan Wawrinka (SUI) def Maxime Cressy (USA) 67 (3) 63 76 (4) ([5] Andrey Rublev)