Rome Masters: Djere dispatches Etcheverry to book spot in second round
Laslo Djere won against Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday evening and will face No 31 seed Alex Michelsen in the next round

Serb Laslo Djere advanced to the second round of the Rome Masters by winning against Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-3, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Djere, ranked No 64, will face No 31 seed Alex Michelsen 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
- Vilius Gaubas vs. Damir Dzumhur
- Yunchaokete Bu vs. Luciano Darderi
- Hamad Medjedovic vs. Otto Virtanen: wednesday
- Francesco Passaro vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng: wednesday
- Cameron Norrie (LL) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-3, 6-2
- Dusan Lajovic (Q) beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 7-5, 6-1
- Roman Andres Burruchaga (Q) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-2, 6-3
- Vit Kopriva (Q) beat Quentin Halys: 6-4, 6-3
- 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