Rome Masters: Hurkacz makes third round
Hubert Hurkacz won against Pedro Martinez Portero 6-1, 7-5 on Saturday and will face the winner of the match between No 4 seed Taylor Fritz and Marcos Giron in the next round
Hubert Hurkacz – Inside / Panoramic
Pole Hubert Hurkacz, the No 30 seed, reached the third round of the Rome Masters by defeating Spaniard Pedro Martinez Portero 6-1, 7-5 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday.
Hurkacz, ranked No 31, will play the winner of the match between No 4 seed Taylor Fritz and Marcos Giron next.
In the previous round of the Italian Open, Martinez Portero, ranked No 49, won against Italian Mattia Bellucci (6-4, 6-2).
Rome 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
- Jakub Mensik vs. Matteo Gigante
- Jesper De Jong vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Taylor Fritz vs. Marcos Giron: saturday
- Alexander Bublik vs. Casper Ruud: saturday
- Sebastian Korda (22) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-3, 6-4
- 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
- Fabian Marozsan beat Andrey Rublev (16): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- 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
