Carlos Alcaraz needs to defend the title he won last year at the Miami Masters to remain at the top of the ATP rankings, and the Iberian seems determined to complete that mission.

Carlos Alcaraz in the third round of the Miami Masters

Alcaraz needed just 65 minutes to defeat Argentina’s Facundo Bañez (100 ATP), 6-0, 6-2.

The 19-year-old Spaniard won the first eight and the last four games of the match.

In the third round of the competition in Florida, Carlos will meet with Dusan Lajovic (76 ATP). The experienced Serbian (32 years old) has already knocked out Andy Murray (former ATP leader and multiple Grand Slam winner) and Maxime Cressy (30th favorite).

Kasper Ruud (seed #3), Andriy Rublev (6), Holger Rune (7), Taylor Fritz (9), Yannick Sinner (10) also advanced to the next round.

On Friday, they played in the second round of the ATP in Miami

Emil Ruusuvuori – Roberto Bautista Agut (22) 6-4, 7-6(5)

Denys Shapovalov (24) – Guido Pella 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

Andriy Rublev (6) – Jeffrey John Wolfe 7-6(3), 6-4

Yannick Sinner (10) – Laszlo Jere 6-4, 6-2

Diego Schwartzman (31) – Yibin Wu 7-6(1), 6-1

Botik van de Zandschulp (26) – Oleksiy Popyrin 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-2

Tommy Paul (16) – Marc-Andrea Huessler 5-7, 6-3, 6-4

Taylor Fritz (9) – Emilio Nava 6-4, 6-1

Miomir Ketsmanovich (29) – Hugo Humbert 6-4, (5)6-7, 7-6(3)

Carlos Alcaraz (1) – Facundo Bañez 6-0, 6-2

Grigor Dimitrov (21) – Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (20) – Brandon Nakashima 6-4, 7-6(5)

Dushan Lajovich – Maxim Cressy (30) 7-5, 7-6(2)

Casper Ruud (3) – Ilya Ivashka 6-2, 6-3

Runa Holger (7) – Marton Fuchovich 6-3, 7-5

Taro Daniel – Oleksandr Zverev (13) 6-0, 6-4.

The Miami Masters takes place from March 22 to April 2 on hard, has a total prize fund of $8.8 million, and the current champion and main favorite is Carlos Alcaraz.

The result of the third day of the men’s singles draw from the ATP in Miami