Rome Masters: Norrie beats O’Connell, Medvedev up next in second round
Cameron Norrie beat Christopher O’Connell 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday evening and will play No 10 seed Daniil Medvedev in the next round
Cameron Norrie at the Italian Open 2023
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Lucky loser Cameron Norrie beat Australian Christopher O’Connell 6-3, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Norrie, ranked No 91, will play No 10 seed Daniil Medvedev 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
- Hamad Medjedovic vs. Otto Virtanen: wednesday
- Laslo Djere vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: wednesday
- Francesco Passaro vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng: wednesday
- Dusan Lajovic (Q) beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 7-5, 6-1
- Roman Andres Burruchaga (Q) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-2, 6-3
- Vit Kopriva (Q) beat Quentin Halys: 6-4, 6-3
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
- Carlos Taberner (Q) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
- Camilo Ugo Carabelli beat Pablo Carreno Busta (LL): 6-2, 1-6, 6-3
- Alexandre Muller beat Jiri Lehecka: 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- 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
