Rome Masters: Tsitsipas reaches third round with rain-delayed win over Borges

Stefanos Tsitsipas won against Nuno Borges 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday. He’ll play Italian Lorenzo Sonego in the next round

Internazionali BNL d'Italia •Second round • completed
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Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 5 seed, reached the third round of the Rome Masters by winning against Portuguese Nuno Borges 6-3, 6-3 at the Foro Italico on Sunday.

Tsitsipas, ranked No 5, will play Italian Lorenzo Sonego next.

Tsitsipas is now 13-2 against players ranked outside the Top 50 so far this year, and 6-1 in opening rounds.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, Borges, ranked No 88, defeated Serb Dusan Lajovic (6-4, 6-1).

Rome Masters, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):

  • David Goffin vs. Alexander Zverev
  • Daniel Altmaier vs. Frances Tiafoe
  • Jiri Lehecka vs. Fabian Marozsan
  • Lorenzo Musetti vs. Matteo Arnaldi
  • Yannick Hanfmann vs. Taylor Fritz: sunday
  • Daniil Medvedev (3) beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 6-4, 6-2
  • Marco Cecchinato beat Roberto Bautista Agut (21): 6-2, 6-2
  • Lorenzo Sonego beat Yoshihito Nishioka (25): 7-5, 6-3
  • 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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