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yRome Masters: Shevchenko through to third round
Alexander Shevchenko won against Sebastian Baez 6-3, 6-4 on Friday and will face Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 8 seed, in the next round
Russian lucky loser Alexander Shevchenko moved into the third round of the Rome Masters by winning against Argentinian Sebastian Baez 6-3, 6-4 at the Foro Italico on Friday afternoon.
Shevchenko, ranked No 93, will play Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 8 seed, next.
Baez, ranked No 40, defeated Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (7-5, 6-3) 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):
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Daniel Evans
- Borna Coric vs. Thiago Monteiro
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Nuno Borges
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jason Kubler
- David Goffin vs. Alexander Zverev
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. J.J. Wolf
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Taylor Fritz
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Marco Cecchinato
- Guido Pella vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Andrey Rublev vs. Alex Molcan
- Novak Djokovic vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Alexander Bublik vs. Ben Shelton
- Casper Ruud vs. Arthur Rinderknech
- Arthur Fils vs. Holger Rune
- Karen Khachanov vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Cristian Garin vs. Tommy Paul
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Laslo Djere
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Fabio Fognini
- Roman Safiullin vs. Sebastian Korda: friday
- Stan Wawrinka vs. Grigor Dimitrov: friday
- Marton Fucsovics beat Alex De Minaur (17): 6-3, 6-4
- Jannik Sinner 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
