Rome Masters: Korda makes third round

American Sebastian Korda, the No 24 seed, edged out Italian Flavio Cobolli 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.

Korda, ranked No 27, will face the winner of the match between American Taylor Fritz, the No 11 seed, and Italian wildcard Fabio Fognini next.

Cobolli, ranked No 57, beat German qualifier Maximilian Marterer (6-4, 6-2) 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):

• Luca Nardi vs. Holger Rune
• Marcos Giron vs. Andrey Rublev
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Jaume Munar vs. Cameron Norrie
• Sebastian Baez vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Jack Draper vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Arthur Fils vs. Alexandre Muller
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Alex De Minaur
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Rafael Nadal
• Tommy Paul vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Juncheng Shang vs. Stefano Napolitano
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Novak Djokovic vs. Corentin Moutet
• Taylor Fritz vs. Fabio Fognini
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Casper Ruud
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Matteo Gigante
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Karen Khachanov: friday
• Tallon Griekspoor vs. Francesco Passaro: friday
• Alexander Zverev (3) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-0, 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