Rome Masters: Mensik through to third round

No 20 seed Jakub Mensik advanced to the third round of the Rome Masters by defeating Italian wildcard Matteo Gigante 7-6 (4), 7-5 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday.

Mensik, ranked No 21, will face Hungarian Fabian Marozsan next.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, Gigante, ranked No 164, won against Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (7-6 (4), 7-6 (4)).

Roma Masters 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):

• Jannik Sinner vs. Mariano Navone
• Luca Nardi vs. Alex De Minaur
• Ben Shelton vs. Jaume Munar
• Hugo Dellien vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Nicolas Jarry: saturday
• Jesper De Jong (LL) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (25): 6-0, 6-2
• Marcos Giron beat Taylor Fritz (4): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3)

• Casper Ruud (6) beat Alexander Bublik: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Hubert Hurkacz (30) beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 6-1, 7-5
• Sebastian Korda (22) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-3, 6-4
• Tomas Machac (19) beat Learner Tien: 6-4, 6-4
• Sebastian Ofner (Q) beat Frances Tiafoe (15): 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-3
• Tommy Paul (11) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-1, 6-4
• Fabian Marozsan beat Andrey Rublev (16): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
• Matteo Berrettini (29) beat Jacob Fearnley: 6-4, 7-6
• Alexander Zverev (2) beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli: 6-2, 6-1
• Jack Draper (5) beat Luciano Darderi: 6-1, 6-4
• Holger Rune (9) beat Francisco Comesana: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Vilius Gaubas (Q) beat Denis Shapovalov (27): 6-3, 6-4
• Vit Kopriva (Q) beat Sebastian Baez (32): 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Corentin Moutet beat Ugo Humbert (21): 6-3, 4-0 ret.
• Daniil Medvedev (10) beat Cameron Norrie (LL): 6-4, 6-2
• Laslo Djere beat Alex Michelsen (31): 6-0, 6-3
• Lorenzo Musetti (8) beat Otto Virtanen (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (18) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Dusan Lajovic (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Alexei Popyrin (24) beat Carlos Taberner (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Arthur Fils (13) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-2, 6-2
• Karen Khachanov (23) beat Roman Andres Burruchaga (Q): 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
• Francesco Passaro (WC) beat Grigor Dimitrov (14): 7-5, 6-3
• Jordan Thompson vs. Brandon Nakashima