Rome Masters: Gigante advances to second round

Wildcard Matteo Gigante beat wildcard Giulio Zeppieri 7-6 (2), 6-4 to move into the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Thursday.

Gigante, ranked No 139, will face No 20 seed Francisco Cerundolo next.

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

• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
• Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
• Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
• Harold Mayot vs. Matteo Arnaldi: thursday
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima: thursday
• Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin: thursday
• Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Rafael Nadal beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (7)
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2
• Dominik Koepfer beat Andrea Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Gregoire Barrere (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Jaume Munar beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-4, 7-5
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Diego Schwartzman (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-4, 6-4
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 6-2
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Gael Monfils: 6-2, 7-5
• Flavio Cobolli beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Pavel Kotov beat Alex Michelsen: 6-1, 6-1
• Yoshihito Nishioka beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Nuno Borges beat Pedro Martinez: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (8)
• Luciano Darderi beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Jakub Mensik: 6-3, 6-2
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-2, 7-5