Rome Masters: Bublik makes second round

Kazakh Alexander Bublik won against Spanish qualifier Pedro Martinez 6-3, 7-6 (4) to move into the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Wednesday afternoon.

Bublik, ranked No 49, will play No 28 seed Ben Shelton next.

Rome Masters, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):

• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Alex Molcan
• Quentin Halys vs. J.J. Wolf
• Corentin Moutet vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Francesco Passaro
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Nuno Borges
• Guido Pella vs. Maxime Cressy
• Luca Nardi vs. David Goffin
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Hugo Dellien vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Jason Kubler
• Fabio Fognini vs. Andy Murray
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Roman Safiullin vs. Marcos Giron
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q) beat Jaume Munar: 4-2 ret.
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Arthur Fils: wednesday
• Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-1, 6-3
• Yibing Wu beat Richard Gasquet: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Pedro Cachin vs. Cristian Garin: wednesday
• Laslo Djere beat Constant Lestienne: 6-1 ret.
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Luca Van Assche: 7-6 (7), 6-3
• Sebastian Baez beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 7-5, 6-3
• Marton Fucsovics beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-4, 6-2
• Stan Wawrinka beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 6-4