Rome Masters: Lajovic beats Nishioka to set up Alcaraz clash in second round
Dusan Lajovic beat Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5, 6-1 on Wednesday. He’ll face No 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz in the next round
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Serb qualifier Dusan Lajovic won against Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5, 6-1 to reach the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Lajovic, ranked No 131, will face No 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz next.
Rome Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Jacob Fearnley vs. Fabio Fognini
- Mattia Bellucci vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
- Learner Tien vs. Reilly Opelka
- Gabriel Diallo vs. Marcos Giron
- Alexander Bublik vs. Roman Safiullin
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Luca Nardi vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Nuno Borges vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Matteo Gigante
- Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Jaume Munar
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Joao Fonseca
- Mariano Navone vs. Federico Cina
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
- Hugo Gaston vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Jesper De Jong vs. Alexander Shevchenko
- Yunchaokete Bu vs. Luciano Darderi
- Hamad Medjedovic vs. Otto Virtanen
- Vilius Gaubas vs. Damir Dzumhur
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Cameron Norrie
- Laslo Djere vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Francesco Passaro vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
- Roman Andres Burruchaga (Q) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-2, 6-3
- Vit Kopriva vs. Quentin Halys: wednesday
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
- Carlos Taberner (Q) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
- Camilo Ugo Carabelli beat Pablo Carreno Busta (LL): 6-2, 1-6, 6-3
- Alexandre Muller beat Jiri Lehecka: 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Jordan Thompson beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Francisco Comesana beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-1, 7-5
- Corentin Moutet beat Rinky Hijikata: 3-6, 6-1, 7-5
