Rome Masters: Tsitsipas into third round after early racquet-smash

Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 6 seed, edged out German Jan-Lennard Struff 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Saturday evening.

Eighth seed Tsitsipas survived a tetchy beginning, during which he smashed a racquet, to clinch a meeting with No 27 seed Cameron Norrie next.

Struff, ranked No 41, defeated Argentinian Pedro Cachin (6-4, 6-4) in the previous round of the Italian Open.

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

• Marcos Giron vs. Andrey Rublev
• Luca Nardi vs. Holger Rune: saturday
• Felix Auger-Aliassime (18) beat Botic van de Zandschulp (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (6)
• Cameron Norrie beat Jaume Munar: 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
• Sebastian Baez (17) beat Dusan Lajovic: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6)
• Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Arthur Fils (31): 7-5, 6-3
• Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 6-4
• Alex De Minaur (9) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-3, 6-2
• Dominik Koepfer beat Frances Tiafoe (22): 6-4, 6-2
• Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat Juncheng Shang (LL): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-0
• Tommy Paul (14) beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 6-2
• Hubert Hurkacz (7) beat Rafael Nadal: 6-1, 6-3
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (30): 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry (25) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-3, 7-5
• Nicolas Jarry (21) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Novak Djokovic (1) beat Corentin Moutet (LL): 6-3, 6-1
• Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Matteo Gigante (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Casper Ruud (5): 0-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Taylor Fritz (11) beat Fabio Fognini (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Alejandro Tabilo (29) beat Yannick Hanfmann: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Karen Khachanov (16) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-4, 6-4
• Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Tallon Griekspoor (23): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Alexander Zverev (3) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-0, 6-4
• Sebastian Korda (24) beat Flavio Cobolli: 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-4
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Jordan Thompson (32): 6-1, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Adrian Mannarino (19): 6-1, 6-3
• Ben Shelton (12) beat Pavel Kotov: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• 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