Rome Masters: Cerundolo cruises into last 16
Francisco Cerundolo won against Sebastian Ofner 6-2, 6-4 on Monday and will play the winner of the match between Italian Jannik Sinner, the top seed, and Dutch lucky loser Jesper De Jong in the next round
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Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 17 seed, reached the last 16 of the Rome Masters by beating Austrian qualifier Sebastian Ofner 6-2, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Monday.
Cerundolo, ranked No 18, will play the winner of the match between Italian Jannik Sinner, the top seed, and Dutch lucky loser Jesper De Jong next.
The Argentinian won against Chilean Nicolas Jarry (7-6 (4), 6-3) in the previous round of the Italian Open.
In the previous rounds of the Italian Open, Ofner, ranked No 143, benefited from the abandonment of Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena (6-3, 0-0) and won against American Frances Tiafoe, the No 15 seed (6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-3).
Roma Masters 1000, other third-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Casper Ruud
- Jaume Munar vs. Sebastian Korda
- Jannik Sinner vs. Jesper De Jong: monday
- Hubert Hurkacz (30) beat Marcos Giron: 6-3, 1-6, 6-1
- Jakub Mensik (20) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Alex De Minaur (7) beat Hugo Dellien (LL): 6-4, 6-4
- Tommy Paul (11) beat Tomas Machac (19): 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4
- Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Laslo Djere: 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (23) beat Francesco Passaro (WC): 6-3, 6-0
- Jack Draper (5) beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Alexander Zverev (2) beat Vilius Gaubas (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Lorenzo Musetti (8) beat Brandon Nakashima (28): 6-4, 6-3
- Corentin Moutet beat Holger Rune (9): 7-5, 5-7, 7-6 (4)
- Arthur Fils (13) beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (18): 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Daniil Medvedev (10) beat Alexei Popyrin (24): 6-4, 6-1
