Rome Masters: Marozsan upsets Rublev to reach round of 16

Hungarian Fabian Marozsan advanced to the third round of the Rome Masters by winning against Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 16 seed, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Saturday.

Marozsan, ranked No 61, will face the winner of the match between No 20 seed Jakub Mensik and Italian wildcard Matteo Gigante next.

The Hungarian is in a good shape at the Italian Open, where he showed up for the first time on the big stage, defeating Carlos Alcaraz in 2023. He had defeated the rising star of the men’s Tour, Brazilian Joao Fonseca (6-3, 7-6 [4]) in the previous round.

Rublev has only won two matches on the ATP Tour since his win at the Dubai tournament in February.

Roma Masters 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):

• Jannik Sinner vs. Mariano Navone
• Luca Nardi vs. Alex De Minaur
• Ben Shelton vs. Jaume Munar
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Jesper De Jong vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Jakub Mensik vs. Matteo Gigante
• Taylor Fritz vs. Marcos Giron
• Alexander Bublik vs. Casper Ruud
• Pedro Martinez Portero vs. Hubert Hurkacz: saturday
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Sebastian Korda: saturday
• Tomas Machac (19) beat Learner Tien: 6-4, 6-4
• Sebastian Ofner (Q) beat Frances Tiafoe (15): 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-3
• Tommy Paul (11) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-1, 6-4
• Matteo Berrettini (29) beat Jacob Fearnley: 6-4, 7-6
• Alexander Zverev (2) beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli: 6-2, 6-1
• Jack Draper (5) beat Luciano Darderi: 6-1, 6-4
• Holger Rune (9) beat Francisco Comesana: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Vilius Gaubas (Q) beat Denis Shapovalov (27): 6-3, 6-4
• Vit Kopriva (Q) beat Sebastian Baez (32): 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Corentin Moutet beat Ugo Humbert (21): 6-3, 4-0 ret.
• Daniil Medvedev (10) beat Cameron Norrie (LL): 6-4, 6-2
• Laslo Djere beat Alex Michelsen (31): 6-0, 6-3
• Lorenzo Musetti (8) beat Otto Virtanen (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (18) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Dusan Lajovic (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Alexei Popyrin (24) beat Carlos Taberner (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Arthur Fils (13) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-2, 6-2
• Karen Khachanov (23) beat Roman Andres Burruchaga (Q): 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
• Francesco Passaro (WC) beat Grigor Dimitrov (14): 7-5, 6-3
• Jordan Thompson vs. Brandon Nakashima