Rome Masters: Ruud reaches third round
Casper Ruud beat Alexander Bublik 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 on Saturday afternoon. He’ll face Italian Matteo Berrettini, the No 29 seed, in the next round
Casper Ruud (Laurent Lairys/PSNewz)
Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 6 seed, beat Kazakh Alexander Bublik 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday.
Ruud, ranked No 7, will play Italian Matteo Berrettini, the No 29 seed, next.
Bublik, ranked No 76, won against Russian Roman Safiullin (6-3, 7-6 (4)) in the previous round of the Italian Open.
Rome Masters 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
- Jannik Sinner vs. Mariano Navone
- Luca Nardi vs. Alex De Minaur
- Ben Shelton vs. Jaume Munar
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Jakub Mensik vs. Matteo Gigante
- Jesper De Jong vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: saturday
- Marcos Giron beat Taylor Fritz (4): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3)
- Hubert Hurkacz (30) beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 6-1, 7-5
- Sebastian Korda (22) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-3, 6-4
- Tomas Machac (19) beat Learner Tien: 6-4, 6-4
- Sebastian Ofner (Q) beat Frances Tiafoe (15): 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-3
- Tommy Paul (11) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-1, 6-4
- Fabian Marozsan beat Andrey Rublev (16): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Matteo Berrettini beat Jacob Fearnley: 6-4, 7-6
- Alexander Zverev (2) beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli: 6-2, 6-1
- Jack Draper (5) beat Luciano Darderi: 6-1, 6-4
- Holger Rune (9) beat Francisco Comesana: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Vilius Gaubas (Q) beat Denis Shapovalov (27): 6-3, 6-4
- Vit Kopriva (Q) beat Sebastian Baez (32): 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Corentin Moutet beat Ugo Humbert (21): 6-3, 4-0 ret.
- Daniil Medvedev (10) beat Cameron Norrie (LL): 6-4, 6-2
- Laslo Djere beat Alex Michelsen (31): 6-0, 6-3
- Lorenzo Musetti (8) beat Otto Virtanen (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (18) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-2, 7-6 (3)
- Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Dusan Lajovic (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Alexei Popyrin (24) beat Carlos Taberner (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (4)
- Arthur Fils (13) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-2, 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (23) beat Roman Andres Burruchaga (Q): 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
- Francesco Passaro (WC) beat Grigor Dimitrov (14): 7-5, 6-3
- Jordan Thompson vs. Brandon Nakashima
