Rome Masters: Paul gains first top-20 win of the season with victory over Machac
Tommy Paul edged out Tomas Machac 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4 on Monday and will play Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 7 seed, in the next round
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American Tommy Paul, the No 11 seed, reached the last 16 of the Rome Masters by edging out No 19 seed Tomas Machac 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Monday.
Paul, ranked No 12, will face Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 7 seed, next.
The American beat Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut (6-1, 6-4) ahead of his victory.
In the previous round of the Italian Open, Machac, ranked No 20, won against American Learner Tien (6-4, 6-4).
Roma Masters 1000, other third-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Casper Ruud
- Jaume Munar vs. Sebastian Korda
- Jannik Sinner vs. Jesper De Jong
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Marcos Giron vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Jakub Mensik vs. Fabian Marozsan: monday
- Alex De Minaur beat Hugo Dellien (LL): 6-4, 6-4
- Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Laslo Djere: 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (23) beat Francesco Passaro (WC): 6-3, 6-0
- Jack Draper (5) beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Alexander Zverev (2) beat Vilius Gaubas (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Lorenzo Musetti (8) beat Brandon Nakashima (28): 6-4, 6-3
- Corentin Moutet beat Holger Rune (9): 7-5, 5-7, 7-6 (4)
- Arthur Fils (13) beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (18): 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Daniil Medvedev (10) beat Alexei Popyrin (24): 6-4, 6-1
