Rome Masters: Jarry advances to last 16
Nicolas Jarry edged out Stefano Napolitano 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 on Monday evening and will face French qualifier Alexandre Muller in the next round
Nicolas Jarry _ JB Autissier / Panoramic
Chilean Nicolas Jarry, the No 21 seed, advanced to the last 16 of the Rome Masters by edging out Italian wildcard Stefano Napolitano 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Monday evening.
Jarry, ranked No 24, will play French qualifier Alexandre Muller next.
The Chilean defeated Italian Matteo Arnaldi (6-2, 7-6 (6)) in the previous round of the Italian Open.
Earlier in the tournament, Napolitano, ranked No 125, won against American lucky loser J.J. Wolf (6-2, 7-6 (3)) and Chinese lucky loser Juncheng Shang (6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-0).
Rome Masters 1000, other third-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Sebastian Baez vs. Holger Rune
- Hamad Medjedovic vs. Daniil Medvedev: monday
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: monday
- Tommy Paul (14) beat Dominik Koepfer: 6-4, 6-3
- Alexandre Muller beat Andrey Rublev (4): 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (6) beat Cameron Norrie (27): 6-2, 7-6 (1)
- Alex De Minaur (9) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (18): 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Ben Shelton (12): 6-2, 6-4
- Alexander Zverev (3) beat Luciano Darderi: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Taylor Fritz (11) beat Sebastian Korda (24): 6-3, 6-4
- Alejandro Tabilo (29) beat Novak Djokovic (1): 6-2, 6-3
- Grigor Dimitrov (8) beat Terence Atmane (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Karen Khachanov (16) beat Francisco Cerundolo (20): 6-2, 6-4
- Nuno Borges beat Francesco Passaro (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (4)
- Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (6)
