Rome Masters: Molcan advances to second round, now Rublev!
Alex Molcan edged out Stefano Napolitano 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1) on Thursday evening and will play No 6 seed Andrey Rublev in the next round
Alex Molcan in 2022 © Imago / Panoramic
Slovak Alex Molcan edged out Italian qualifier Stefano Napolitano 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1) to move into the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Thursday evening.
Molcan, ranked No 59, will face No 6 seed Andrey Rublev next.
Rome Masters, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Diego Schwartzman: thursday in Rome
- J.J. Wolf beat Hugo Grenier (LL): 7-5, 7-5
- Fabian Marozsan (Q) beat Corentin Moutet: 6-0, 6-7 (8), 6-2
- Yannick Hanfmann (Q) beat Nicolas Jarry: 6-4, 6-4
- Nuno Borges beat Dusan Lajovic: 6-4, 6-1
- Lorenzo Sonego beat Jeremy Chardy: 6-2, 6-1
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas beat Francesco Passaro (WC): 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Guido Pella beat Maxime Cressy: 6-3, 6-4
- Marco Cecchinato beat Mackenzie McDonald: 6-3, 7-5
- Emil Ruusuvuori beat Ugo Humbert: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6)
- David Goffin beat Luca Nardi (WC): 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Thiago Monteiro beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-1, 6-2
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Hugo Dellien: 6-2, 6-3
- Daniel Altmaier (Q) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-0
- Jason Kubler beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-2
- Gregoire Barrere beat Brandon Nakashima: 6-3, 6-3
- Arthur Rinderknech beat Flavio Cobolli (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Andy Murray: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 6-3
- Alexei Popyrin (Q) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q) beat Jaume Munar: 4-2 ret.
- Arthur Fils (Q) beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q): 6-1, 1-6, 6-4
- 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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