Rome Masters: Musetti into third round

Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 8 seed, advanced to the third round of the Rome Masters by winning against Finnish qualifier Otto Virtanen 6-3, 6-2 at the Foro Italico on Friday afternoon.

Musetti, ranked No 9, will play American Brandon Nakashima, the No 28 seed, next.

Virtanen, ranked No 130, beat Serb Hamad Medjedovic (6-4, 6-4) in the previous round of the Italian Open.

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
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Jesper De Jong vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Jakub Mensik vs. Matteo Gigante
• Pedro Martinez Portero vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Taylor Fritz vs. Marcos Giron
• Alexander Bublik vs. Casper Ruud
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Sebastian Korda
• Sebastian Ofner vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Learner Tien vs. Tomas Machac
• Tommy Paul vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Andrey Rublev
• Matteo Berrettini vs. Jacob Fearnley
• Camilo Ugo Carabelli vs. Alexander Zverev
• Francisco Comesana vs. Holger Rune
• Jack Draper vs. Luciano Darderi
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Vilius Gaubas
• Vit Kopriva vs. Sebastian Baez
• Ugo Humbert vs. Corentin Moutet: friday
• Cameron Norrie vs. Daniil Medvedev: friday
• Laslo Djere beat Alex Michelsen (31): 6-0, 6-3
• 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