Rome Masters: Napolitano beats lucky loser Wolf to make second round
Stefano Napolitano defeated J.J. Wolf 6-2, 7-6 (3) on Thursday. He’ll face lucky loser Juncheng Shang in the next round
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Italian wildcard Stefano Napolitano reached the second round of the Rome Masters by defeating American lucky loser J.J. Wolf 6-2, 7-6 (3) at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Napolitano, ranked No 125, will play lucky loser Juncheng Shang 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
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
- Harold Mayot vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric
- Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima: thursday
- Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin: thursday
- Matteo Gigante vs. Giulio Zeppieri: thursday
- Zizou Bergs vs. Rafael Nadal: thursday
- Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (7)
- 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
- Jaume Munar beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-4, 7-5
- 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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