Rome Masters: Korda advances to third round

American Sebastian Korda, the No 22 seed, won against Australian Aleksandar Vukic 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday.

Korda, ranked No 23, will play the winner of the match between American Ben Shelton, the No 12 seed, and Spaniard Jaume Munar next.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, Vukic, ranked No 79, defeated American qualifier Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (7-6 (2), 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
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
• Jakub Mensik vs. Matteo Gigante
• Jesper De Jong vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: saturday
• Taylor Fritz vs. Marcos Giron: saturday
• Alexander Bublik vs. Casper Ruud: saturday
• Hubert Hurkacz (30) beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 6-1, 7-5
• 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