Rome Masters: Gigante advances to second round
Matteo Gigante beat Arthur Rinderknech 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) on Thursday and will play No 20 seed Jakub Mensik in the next round
Matteo Gigante – Imago/Panoramic
Italian wildcard Matteo Gigante advanced to the second round of the Rome Masters by winning against Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) at the Foro Italico on Thursday.
Gigante, ranked No 164, will play No 20 seed Jakub Mensik next.
Roma Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Jacob Fearnley vs. Fabio Fognini
- Learner Tien vs. Reilly Opelka
- Mattia Bellucci vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Gabriel Diallo vs. Marcos Giron: thursday
- Alexander Bublik vs. Roman Safiullin: thursday
- Luca Nardi (WC) beat Flavio Cobolli: 6-3, 6-4
- Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Jaume Munar: thursday
- Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q) beat Nuno Borges: 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
- Fabian Marozsan beat Joao Fonseca: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Mariano Navone beat Federico Cina (WC): 6-3, 6-3
- Roberto Bautista Agut beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-4, 6-3
- 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
