Rome Masters: Rune makes third round with win over Nardi

Dane Holger Rune, the No 10 seed, won against Italian Luca Nardi 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Saturday evening.

Rune, ranked No 12, will face Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 17 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, Nardi, ranked No 81, defeated German Daniel Altmaier (6-4, 6-4).

Rome Masters 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):

• Marcos Giron vs. Andrey Rublev: saturday
• Felix Auger-Aliassime (18) beat Botic van de Zandschulp (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (6)
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (6) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4
• Cameron Norrie (27) beat Jaume Munar: 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
• Sebastian Baez beat Dusan Lajovic: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6)
• Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Arthur Fils (31): 7-5, 6-3
• Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 6-4
• Alex De Minaur (9) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-3, 6-2
• Dominik Koepfer beat Frances Tiafoe (22): 6-4, 6-2
• Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat Juncheng Shang (LL): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-0
• Tommy Paul (14) beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 6-2
• Hubert Hurkacz (7) beat Rafael Nadal: 6-1, 6-3
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (30): 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry (25) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-3, 7-5
• Nicolas Jarry (21) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Novak Djokovic (1) beat Corentin Moutet (LL): 6-3, 6-1
• Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Matteo Gigante (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Casper Ruud (5): 0-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Taylor Fritz (11) beat Fabio Fognini (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Alejandro Tabilo (29) beat Yannick Hanfmann: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Karen Khachanov (16) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-4, 6-4
• Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Tallon Griekspoor (23): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Alexander Zverev (3) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-0, 6-4
• Sebastian Korda (24) beat Flavio Cobolli: 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-4
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Jordan Thompson (32): 6-1, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Adrian Mannarino (19): 6-1, 6-3
• Ben Shelton (12) beat Pavel Kotov: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Luciano Darderi beat Mariano Navone (28): 6-3, 6-2
• Grigor Dimitrov (8) beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 7-5, 6-4
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Lorenzo Musetti (26): 7-5, 1-0 ret.
• Nuno Borges beat Alexander Bublik (15): 6-4, 6-4