Rome Masters: Muller battles past Lehecka to move into second round

Frenchman Alexandre Muller edged out Jiri Lehecka 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) to advance to the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Muller, ranked No 39, will play No 18 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas 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
• Yunchaokete Bu vs. Luciano Darderi
• Vilius Gaubas vs. Damir Dzumhur
• Laslo Djere vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Hamad Medjedovic vs. Otto Virtanen
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Cameron Norrie
• Francesco Passaro vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Roman Andres Burruchaga
• Vit Kopriva vs. Quentin Halys
• Tallon Griekspoor vs. Miomir Kecmanovic: wednesday
• Carlos Taberner vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic: wednesday
• Camilo Ugo Carabelli vs. Pablo Carreno Busta: wednesday
• 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