Rome Masters: Italy’s Nardi advances to second round, plays Rune next
Luca Nardi beat Daniel Altmaier 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday night and will play No 10 seed Holger Rune in the next round
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Italian Luca Nardi advanced to the second round of the Rome Masters by defeating German Daniel Altmaier 6-4, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday night.
Nardi, ranked No 81, will face No 10 seed Holger Rune next.
Rome Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego: thursday
- Aslan Karatsev beat Mackenzie McDonald: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Marton Fucsovics: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Daniel Evans: 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
- Botic van de Zandschulp (Q) beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (Q): 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4)
- Jan-Lennard Struff beat Pedro Cachin: 6-4, 6-4
- Marcos Giron beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-7 (7), 5-0 ret.
- Jack Draper beat Borna Coric: 7-5, 6-1
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Harold Mayot (LL): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
- Miomir Kecmanovic beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Roman Safiullin: 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2
- Matteo Gigante (WC) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
- Rafael Nadal beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- 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
