Rome Masters: Carballes Baena into second round
Roberto Carballes Baena benefited from the abandonment of Christopher O’Connell (6-7 (7), 5-0) on Thursday evening and will face No 9 seed Alex De Minaur in the next round
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Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena moved into the second round of the Rome Masters when Australian Christopher O’Connell retired on Thursday evening at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Carballes Baena, ranked No 62, led 6-7 (7), 5-0 when O’Connell, ranked No 66, pulled out at the Foro Italico in Roma on Thursday evening.
The Spaniard will face No 9 seed Alex De Minaur next.
Rome Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev: thursday
- Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics: thursday
- Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini: thursday
- Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp: thursday
- Jan-Lennard Struff beat Pedro Cachin: 6-4, 6-4
- Marcos Giron beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Jack Draper beat Borna Coric: 7-5, 6-1
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Harold Mayot (LL): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
- Miomir Kecmanovic beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Roman Safiullin: 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2
- 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
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