Rome Masters: Van de Zandschulp makes second round
Botic van de Zandschulp edged out Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4) on Thursday evening. He’ll play No 18 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the next round
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Dutch qualifier Botic van de Zandschulp moved into the second round of the Rome Masters by edging out American qualifier Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4) at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.
Van de Zandschulp, ranked No 112, will play No 18 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime next.
Rome Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi: thursday
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego: thursday
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev: thursday
- Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Marton Fucsovics: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Daniel Evans: 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
- Jan-Lennard Struff beat Pedro Cachin: 6-4, 6-4
- Marcos Giron beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-7 (7), 5-0 ret.
- Jack Draper beat Borna Coric: 7-5, 6-1
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Harold Mayot (LL): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
- Miomir Kecmanovic beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Roman Safiullin: 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2
- Matteo Gigante (WC) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
- Rafael Nadal beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (7)
- 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
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