Rome Masters: Sonego into third round, could face Tsitsipas next
Lorenzo Sonego won against Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5, 6-3 on Saturday and will face the winner of the match between Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 5 seed, and Portuguese Nuno Borges in the next round
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Italian Lorenzo Sonego reached the third round of the Rome Masters by defeating Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, the No 25 seed, 7-5, 6-3 at the Foro Italico on Saturday.
Sonego, ranked No 48, will face the winner of the match between Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 5 seed, and Portuguese Nuno Borges next.
The Italian won against Frenchman Jeremy Chardy (6-2, 6-1) ahead of his victory.
Rome Masters, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- David Goffin vs. Alexander Zverev
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Marco Cecchinato
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Taylor Fritz
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Nuno Borges: saturday
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Frances Tiafoe: saturday
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (27) beat Guido Pella: 6-0, 7-6 (4)
- J.J. Wolf beat Hubert Hurkacz (14): 6-3, 6-4
- Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas: 6-4, 6-1
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles (31) beat Jason Kubler: 6-4, 6-1
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Daniel Evans (20): 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-4
- Borna Coric (15) beat Thiago Monteiro: 4-6, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (5)
- Andrey Rublev (6) beat Alex Molcan: 6-3, 6-4
- Casper Ruud (4) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-4, 6-0
- Holger Rune (7) beat Arthur Fils (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Novak Djokovic (1) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Alexander Bublik beat Ben Shelton (28): 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
- Cristian Garin beat Tommy Paul (16): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Miomir Kecmanovic (30): 6-3, 7-6 (6)
- Gregoire Barrere beat Karen Khachanov (11): 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Laslo Djere beat Botic van de Zandschulp (23): 6-2, 6-4
- Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Sebastian Korda (22): 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Grigor Dimitrov (26) beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Alexander Shevchenko (LL) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-3, 6-4
- Marton Fucsovics beat Alex De Minaur (17): 6-3, 6-4
- Jannik Sinner (8) 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
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