Rome Masters: Medjedovic beats Popyrin to reach second round
Hamad Medjedovic beat Alexei Popyrin 6-3, 6-2. He’ll face No 30 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the next round
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Serb qualifier Hamad Medjedovic moved into the second round of the Rome Masters by beating Australian Alexei Popyrin 6-3, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Medjedovic, ranked No 121, will face No 30 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 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
- Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
- Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
- Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Tomas Machac vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Stefano Napolitano vs. J.J. Wolf
- Matteo Gigante vs. Giulio Zeppieri
- Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin
- Zizou Bergs vs. Rafael Nadal
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Francesco Passaro
- Dominik Koepfer beat Andrea Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Gregoire Barrere: thursday
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Jaume Munar: thursday
- 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
