Rome Masters: Musetti sweeps past Nakashima to reach last 16

Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 8 seed, beat American Brandon Nakashima, the No 28 seed, 6-4, 6-3 to move into the last 16 of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Musetti, ranked No 9, will face Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 10 seed, next.

Ahead of his victory, the Italian won against Finnish qualifier Otto Virtanen (6-3, 6-2).

Nakashima, ranked No 29, benefited from the forfeit of Australian Jordan Thompson in the previous round of the Italian Open.

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

• Hugo Dellien vs. Alex De Minaur
• Tommy Paul vs. Tomas Machac
• Jakub Mensik vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Marcos Giron vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Matteo Berrettini vs. Casper Ruud
• Jaume Munar vs. Sebastian Korda
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Jannik Sinner vs. Jesper De Jong
• Laslo Djere vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Francesco Passaro vs. Karen Khachanov
• Jack Draper vs. Vit Kopriva
• Vilius Gaubas vs. Alexander Zverev
• Corentin Moutet vs. Holger Rune: sunday
• Arthur Fils (13) beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (18): 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Daniil Medvedev beat Alexei Popyrin (24): 6-4, 6-1