Rome Masters: Djere moves into second round as Lestienne retires through injury
Laslo Djere benefitted from the abandonment of Constant Lestienne (6-1) on Wednesday afternoon and will face No 23 seed Botic Van De Zandschulp in the next round
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Serb Laslo Djere reached the second round of the Rome Masters when Frenchman Constant Lestienne retired on Wednesday at the Foro Italico.
Djere, ranked No 62, led 6-1 when Lestienne, ranked No 70, pulled out at the Foro Italico on Wednesday afternoon.
The Serb will face No 23 seed Botic van de Zandschulp next.
Rome Masters, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Francesco Passaro
- Corentin Moutet vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Hugo Dellien vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Thiago Monteiro
- Giulio Zeppieri vs. Daniel Altmaier
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Diego Schwartzman
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jeremy Chardy
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Nuno Borges
- Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
- Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Jason Kubler
- Luca Nardi vs. David Goffin
- Quentin Halys vs. J.J. Wolf
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann
- Marco Cecchinato vs. Mackenzie McDonald
- Guido Pella vs. Maxime Cressy
- Stefano Napolitano vs. Alex Molcan
- Fabio Fognini vs. Andy Murray
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Jaume Munar vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
- Roman Safiullin vs. Marcos Giron
- Pedro Martinez vs. Alexander Bublik
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Arthur Fils
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Kyle Edmund vs. Alexandre Muller
- Richard Gasquet vs. Yibing Wu
- Pedro Cachin vs. Cristian Garin: wednesday
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Luca Van Assche: 7-6 (7), 6-3
- Sebastian Baez beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 7-5, 6-3
- Marton Fucsovics beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-4, 6-2
- Stan Wawrinka beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 6-4
