Rome Masters: Bautista Agut books spot in second round

Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut defeated Italian Matteo Arnaldi 6-4, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday.

Bautista Agut, ranked No 56, will face No 11 seed Tommy Paul next.

Roma 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
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Nicolas Jarry beat Hugo Gaston: 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Jesper De Jong (LL) beat Alexander Shevchenko (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Luciano Darderi beat Yunchaokete Bu: 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Vilius Gaubas (Q) beat Damir Dzumhur: 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-4
• Otto Virtanen (Q) beat Hamad Medjedovic: 6-4, 6-4
• Laslo Djere beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-3, 6-2
• Francesco Passaro (WC) beat Chun-Hsin Tseng (Q): 6-0, 2-6, 6-3
• Cameron Norrie (LL) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-3, 6-2
• 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