Rome Masters: Vukic brushes aside Schwartzman to make second round

Australian Aleksandar Vukic reached the second round of the Rome Masters by beating Argentinian qualifier Diego Schwartzman 6-2, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Vukic, ranked No 70, will play No 3 seed Alexander Zverev next.

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

• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
• Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Tomas Machac vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
• Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Zizou Bergs vs. Rafael Nadal
• Stefano Napolitano vs. J.J. Wolf
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Andrea Vavassori
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Jaume Munar
• Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin
• Matteo Gigante vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-4, 6-4
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Francesco Passaro
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 6-2
• 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