Rome Masters: Darderi knocks out Shapovalov in round one
Luciano Darderi edged out Denis Shapovalov 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Wednesday and will face No 28 seed Mariano Navone in the next round
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Italian Luciano Darderi advanced to the second round of the Rome Masters by edging out Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4) at the Foro Italico in Roma on Wednesday.
Darderi, ranked No 54, will play No 28 seed Mariano Navone next.
Roma Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Hamad Medjedovic
- Dominik Koepfer vs. Andrea Vavassori
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Zizou Bergs vs. Rafael Nadal
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
- Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Tomas Machac vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Stefano Napolitano vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Jaume Munar
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
- Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
- Matteo Gigante vs. Giulio Zeppieri
- Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin
- Christopher Eubanks vs. Terence Atmane
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Francesco Passaro
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Aleksandar Vukic
- Thiago Monteiro vs. Gael Monfils
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Maximilian Marterer vs. Flavio Cobolli: wednesday
- Pavel Kotov vs. Alex Michelsen: wednesday
- Yoshihito Nishioka beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
- Nuno Borges vs. Pedro Martinez: wednesday
- Yannick Hanfmann beat Jakub Mensik: 6-3, 6-2
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-2, 7-5
