Rome Masters: Shevchenko eases into round two

Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko beat Hungarian Fabian Marozsan 6-3, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Wednesday.

Shevchenko, ranked No 60, will face No 16 seed Karen Khachanov next.

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

• Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Andrea Vavassori
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Zizou Bergs vs. Rafael Nadal
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
• Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Tomas Machac vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Jaume Munar
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
• Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
• Matteo Gigante vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Terence Atmane
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Francesco Passaro
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Gael Monfils: 6-2, 7-5
• Flavio Cobolli beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Pavel Kotov beat Alex Michelsen: 6-1, 6-1
• Yoshihito Nishioka beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Nuno Borges beat Pedro Martinez: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (8)
• Luciano Darderi beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Jakub Mensik: 6-3, 6-2
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-2, 7-5