Rome Masters: Rune begins title campaign with comfortable win over Frenchman Fils

Dane Holger Rune, the No 7 seed, advanced to the third round of the Rome Masters by defeating French qualifier Arthur Fils 6-3, 6-3 at the Foro Italico on Friday evening.

Rune, ranked No 7, will play Italian wildcard Fabio Fognini next.

Fils, ranked No 119, edged out Argentinian qualifier Juan Manuel Cerundolo (6-1, 1-6, 6-4) in the previous round of the Italian Open.

Rome Masters, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):

• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Marco Cecchinato
• David Goffin vs. Alexander Zverev
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Taylor Fritz
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Nuno Borges
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jason Kubler
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. J.J. Wolf
• Guido Pella vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Daniel Evans
• Borna Coric vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Andrey Rublev vs. Alex Molcan
• Casper Ruud vs. Arthur Rinderknech: friday
• Novak Djokovic vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: friday
• Alexander Bublik beat Ben Shelton (28): 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
• Cristian Garin beat Tommy Paul (16): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Fabio Fognini beat Miomir Kecmanovic (30): 6-3, 7-6 (6)
• Gregoire Barrere beat Karen Khachanov (11): 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Laslo Djere beat Botic van de Zandschulp (23): 6-2, 6-4
• Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Sebastian Korda (22): 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Grigor Dimitrov (26) beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Alexander Shevchenko (LL) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-3, 6-4
• Marton Fucsovics beat Alex De Minaur (17): 6-3, 6-4
• Jannik Sinner (8) beat Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Francisco Cerundolo (24) beat Yibing Wu: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Alexei Popyrin (Q) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (10): 6-4, 4-6, 7-5
• Cameron Norrie (13) beat Alexandre Muller (Q): 6-2, 6-3