Rome Masters: Arnaldi edges lucky loser Mayot

Italian Matteo Arnaldi edged out French lucky loser Harold Mayot 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Thursday evening.

Arnaldi, ranked No 37, will play No 21 seed Nicolas Jarry next.

Roma Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):

• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
• Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics: thursday
• Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini: thursday
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp: thursday
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin: thursday
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron: thursday
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell: thursday
• Jack Draper beat Borna Coric: 7-5, 6-1
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Roman Safiullin: 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2
• Matteo Gigante (WC) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Rafael Nadal beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (7)
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2
• Dominik Koepfer beat Andrea Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Gregoire Barrere (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Jaume Munar beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-4, 7-5
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Diego Schwartzman (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-4, 6-4
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 6-2
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Gael Monfils: 6-2, 7-5
• Flavio Cobolli beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Pavel Kotov beat Alex Michelsen: 6-1, 6-1
• Yoshihito Nishioka beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Nuno Borges beat Pedro Martinez: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (8)
• Luciano Darderi beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Jakub Mensik: 6-3, 6-2
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-2, 7-5