Rome Masters: Paul gains first top-20 win of the season with victory over Machac

American Tommy Paul, the No 11 seed, reached the last 16 of the Rome Masters by edging out No 19 seed Tomas Machac 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Monday.

Paul, ranked No 12, will face Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 7 seed, next.

The American beat Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut (6-1, 6-4) ahead of his victory.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, Machac, ranked No 20, won against American Learner Tien (6-4, 6-4).

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

• Matteo Berrettini vs. Casper Ruud
• Jaume Munar vs. Sebastian Korda
• Jannik Sinner vs. Jesper De Jong
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Marcos Giron vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Jakub Mensik vs. Fabian Marozsan: monday
• Alex De Minaur beat Hugo Dellien (LL): 6-4, 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Laslo Djere: 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Karen Khachanov (23) beat Francesco Passaro (WC): 6-3, 6-0
• Jack Draper (5) beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Alexander Zverev (2) beat Vilius Gaubas (Q): 6-4, 6-0
• Lorenzo Musetti (8) beat Brandon Nakashima (28): 6-4, 6-3
• Corentin Moutet beat Holger Rune (9): 7-5, 5-7, 7-6 (4)
• Arthur Fils (13) beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (18): 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Daniil Medvedev (10) beat Alexei Popyrin (24): 6-4, 6-1