Rome Masters: Passaro wins epic over Rinderknech to reach second round

Italian qualifier Francesco Passaro edged out Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (7) to advance to the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Passaro, ranked No 240, will face No 23 seed Tallon Griekspoor next.

Roma Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):

• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
• Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Tomas Machac vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Matteo Gigante vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin
• Stefano Napolitano vs. J.J. Wolf: thursday
• Zizou Bergs vs. Rafael Nadal: thursday
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2
• Dominik Koepfer beat Andrea Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Gregoire Barrere (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Jaume Munar beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-4, 7-5
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Diego Schwartzman (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-4, 6-4
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 6-2
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Gael Monfils: 6-2, 7-5
• Flavio Cobolli beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Pavel Kotov beat Alex Michelsen: 6-1, 6-1
• Yoshihito Nishioka beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Nuno Borges beat Pedro Martinez: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (8)
• Luciano Darderi beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Jakub Mensik: 6-3, 6-2
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-2, 7-5