Rome Masters: Baez advances to third round

Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 17 seed, won against Serb Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6) to move into the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Saturday.

Baez, ranked No 19, will face the winner of the match between Italian Luca Nardi and Dane Holger Rune, the No 10 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, Lajovic, ranked No 64, defeated Italian Lorenzo Sonego (6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3).

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

• Luca Nardi vs. Holger Rune
• Marcos Giron vs. Andrey Rublev
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Jaume Munar vs. Cameron Norrie: saturday
• Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Arthur Fils (31): 7-5, 6-3
• Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 6-4
• Alex De Minaur (9) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-3, 6-2
• Dominik Koepfer beat Frances Tiafoe (22): 6-4, 6-2
• Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat Juncheng Shang (LL): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-0
• Tommy Paul (14) beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 6-2
• Hubert Hurkacz (7) beat Rafael Nadal: 6-1, 6-3
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (30): 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry (25) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-3, 7-5
• Nicolas Jarry (21) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Novak Djokovic (1) beat Corentin Moutet (LL): 6-3, 6-1
• Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Matteo Gigante (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Casper Ruud (5): 0-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Taylor Fritz (11) beat Fabio Fognini (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Alejandro Tabilo (29) beat Yannick Hanfmann: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Karen Khachanov (16) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-4, 6-4
• Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Tallon Griekspoor (23): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Alexander Zverev (3) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-0, 6-4
• Sebastian Korda (24) beat Flavio Cobolli: 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-4
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Jordan Thompson (32): 6-1, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Adrian Mannarino (19): 6-1, 6-3
• Ben Shelton (12) beat Pavel Kotov: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Luciano Darderi beat Mariano Navone (28): 6-3, 6-2
• Grigor Dimitrov (8) beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 7-5, 6-4
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Lorenzo Musetti (26): 7-5, 1-0 ret.
• Nuno Borges beat Alexander Bublik (15): 6-4, 6-4