Rome Masters: Seed Fokina falls to lucky loser De Jong
Jesper De Jong won against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-0, 6-2 on Saturday and will face the winner of the match between Italian Jannik Sinner, the top seed, and Argentinian Mariano Navone in the next round
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Dutch lucky loser Jesper De Jong beat Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the No 25 seed, 6-0, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday.
De Jong, ranked No 93, will play the winner of the match between Italian Jannik Sinner, the top seed, and Argentinian Mariano Navone next.
The Dutchman won against Kazakh qualifier Alexander Shevchenko (6-2, 6-4) ahead of his victory.
Roma 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: saturday
- Marcos Giron beat Taylor Fritz (4): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3)
- Casper Ruud (6) beat Alexander Bublik: 6-4, 4-6, 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 (29) 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
