Rome Masters: Munar eases past Hijikata to book spot in second round
Jaume Munar beat Rinky Hijikata 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday and will play No 27 seed Cameron Norrie in the next round
Jaume Munar AI/Reuters/Panoramic
Spaniard Jaume Munar beat Australian Rinky Hijikata 6-4, 7-5 to advance to the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Munar, ranked No 68, will play No 27 seed Cameron Norrie 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: thursday
- Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2
- Dominik Koepfer beat Andrea Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3
- Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Gregoire Barrere (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- 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
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