Rome Masters: Nakashima reaches third round
Brandon Nakashima benefited from the forfeit of Jordan Thompson on Friday. He’ll face the winner of the match between Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 8 seed, and Finnish qualifier Otto Virtanen in the next round

American Brandon Nakashima, the No 28 seed, moved into the third round of the Rome Masters after Australian Jordan Thompson withdrew before the match on Friday at the Foro Italico.
Nakashima, ranked No 29, will play the winner of the match between Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 8 seed, and Finnish qualifier Otto Virtanen next.
Thompson, ranked No 41, edged out Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)) 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):
- Ben Shelton vs. Jaume Munar
- Sebastian Ofner vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Jesper De Jong vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Jannik Sinner vs. Mariano Navone
- Luca Nardi vs. Alex De Minaur
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
- Learner Tien vs. Tomas Machac
- Tommy Paul vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Andrey Rublev
- Jakub Mensik vs. Matteo Gigante
- Pedro Martinez Portero vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Taylor Fritz vs. Marcos Giron
- Alexander Bublik vs. Casper Ruud
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Jacob Fearnley
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Sebastian Korda
- Camilo Ugo Carabelli vs. Alexander Zverev
- Jack Draper vs. Luciano Darderi
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Vilius Gaubas
- Francisco Comesana vs. Holger Rune
- Vit Kopriva vs. Sebastian Baez
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Otto Virtanen
- Cameron Norrie vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Alex Michelsen vs. Laslo Djere
- Ugo Humbert vs. Corentin Moutet
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Alexandre Muller vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Carlos Taberner
- Arthur Fils vs. Tallon Griekspoor: friday
- Roman Andres Burruchaga vs. Karen Khachanov: friday
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Francesco Passaro: friday