Rome Masters: Kokkinakis through to second round, plays Sinner next

Australian qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis advanced to the second round of the Rome Masters when Spaniard Jaume Munar retired at the Foro Italico on Wednesday.

Kokkinakis, ranked No 104, led 4-2 when Munar, ranked No 75, pulled out on Wednesday at the Foro Italico.

The Australian will play No 8 seed Jannik Sinner next.

Rome Masters, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):

• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Alex Molcan
• Quentin Halys vs. J.J. Wolf
• Corentin Moutet vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Francesco Passaro
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Nuno Borges
• Guido Pella vs. Maxime Cressy
• Luca Nardi vs. David Goffin
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Hugo Dellien vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Jason Kubler
• Fabio Fognini vs. Andy Murray
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Roman Safiullin vs. Marcos Giron
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Arthur Fils: wednesday
• Alexander Bublik beat Pedro Martinez (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-1, 6-3
• Yibing Wu beat Richard Gasquet: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Cristian Garin beat Pedro Cachin: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Laslo Djere beat Constant Lestienne: 6-1 ret.
• 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