Rome Masters: Medjedovic beats Popyrin to reach second round

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