Rome Masters: Australia’s Kubler moves into second round

Australian Jason Kubler beat Swiss Marc-Andrea Huesler 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Thursday.

Kubler, ranked No 66, will play No 31 seed Bernabe Zapata Miralles 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
• Hugo Grenier vs. J.J. Wolf
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Nuno Borges
• Corentin Moutet vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Francesco Passaro
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Guido Pella vs. Maxime Cressy
• Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Luca Nardi vs. David Goffin: thursday
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Thiago Monteiro: thursday
• Roberto Carballes Baena beat Hugo Dellien: 6-2, 6-3
• Daniel Altmaier (Q) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-0
• Gregoire Barrere beat Brandon Nakashima: 6-3, 6-3
• Arthur Rinderknech beat Flavio Cobolli (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Andy Murray: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 6-3
• Alexei Popyrin (Q) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q) beat Jaume Munar: 4-2 ret.
• Arthur Fils (Q) beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q): 6-1, 1-6, 6-4
• 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