Rome Masters: Kokkinakis through to second round, plays Sinner next
Thanasi Kokkinakis benefited from the abandonment of Jaume Munar (4-2) on Wednesday. He’ll play No 8 seed Jannik Sinner in the next round
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Tennis – Italian Open – Foro Italico, Rome, Italy – May 10, 2023 Australia’s Thanasi Kokkinakis during his round of 128 match against Spain’s Jaume Munar || 265828_0104
Australian qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis advanced to the second round of the Rome Masters when Spaniard Jaume Munar retired at the Foro Italico on Wednesday.
Kokkinakis, ranked No 104, led 4-2 when Munar, ranked No 75, pulled out on Wednesday at the Foro Italico.
The Australian will play No 8 seed Jannik Sinner 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
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Roman Safiullin vs. Marcos Giron
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Arthur Fils: wednesday
- Alexander Bublik beat Pedro Martinez (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-1, 6-3
- Yibing Wu beat Richard Gasquet: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Cristian Garin beat Pedro Cachin: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- 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
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