Rome Masters: Moutet sets up Djokovic clash

French lucky loser Corentin Moutet advanced to the second round of the Rome Masters by defeating Russian Roman Safiullin 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Thursday.

Moutet, ranked No 83, will play top seed Novak Djokovic next.

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

• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
• Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
• Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric: thursday
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Harold Mayot vs. Matteo Arnaldi: thursday
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Matteo Gigante (WC) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Rafael Nadal beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (7)
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2
• Dominik Koepfer beat Andrea Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Gregoire Barrere (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Jaume Munar beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-4, 7-5
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Diego Schwartzman (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-4, 6-4
• 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