Rome Masters: Shelton reaches third round
Ben Shelton edged out Pavel Kotov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday afternoon and will play Chinese Zhizhen Zhang in the next round
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American Ben Shelton, the No 12 seed, advanced to the third round of the Rome Masters by edging out Russian Pavel Kotov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.
Shelton, ranked No 14, will face Chinese Zhizhen Zhang next.
In the previous round of the Italian Open, Kotov, ranked No 63, won against American Alex Michelsen (6-1, 6-1).
Rome Masters 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Jack Draper vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Hamad Medjedovic
- Dominik Koepfer vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Tommy Paul vs. Aslan Karatsev
- Luca Nardi vs. Holger Rune
- Sebastian Baez vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. Rafael Nadal
- Marcos Giron vs. Andrey Rublev
- Arthur Fils vs. Alexandre Muller
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Juncheng Shang vs. Stefano Napolitano
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Alex De Minaur
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
- Jaume Munar vs. Cameron Norrie
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Novak Djokovic vs. Corentin Moutet
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Matteo Gigante
- Taylor Fritz vs. Fabio Fognini
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Francesco Passaro
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Casper Ruud
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Karen Khachanov
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Alejandro Tabilo
- Alexander Zverev vs. Aleksandar Vukic: friday
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Sebastian Korda: friday
- Jordan Thompson vs. Thiago Monteiro: friday
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Adrian Mannarino (19): 6-1, 6-3
- 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
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