Rome Masters: Karatsev moves into second round

Russian Aslan Karatsev edged out American Mackenzie McDonald 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.

Karatsev, ranked No 86, will play No 14 seed Tommy Paul next.

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

• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi: thursday
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego: thursday
• Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Marton Fucsovics: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Daniel Evans: 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
• Botic van de Zandschulp (Q) beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (Q): 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4)
• Jan-Lennard Struff beat Pedro Cachin: 6-4, 6-4
• Marcos Giron beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Roberto Carballes Baena beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-7 (7), 5-0 ret.
• Jack Draper beat Borna Coric: 7-5, 6-1
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Harold Mayot (LL): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Roman Safiullin: 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2
• Matteo Gigante (WC) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
• 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