Rome Masters: Baez makes second round

Argentinian Sebastian Baez beat Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas 7-5, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Wednesday.

Baez, ranked No 40, will face No 29 seed Tallon Griekspoor next.

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

• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Francesco Passaro
• Corentin Moutet vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Hugo Dellien vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Nuno Borges
• Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Jason Kubler
• Luca Nardi vs. David Goffin
• Quentin Halys vs. J.J. Wolf
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Guido Pella vs. Maxime Cressy
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Alex Molcan
• Fabio Fognini vs. Andy Murray
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Jaume Munar vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Roman Safiullin vs. Marcos Giron
• Pedro Martinez vs. Alexander Bublik
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Arthur Fils
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Kyle Edmund vs. Alexandre Muller
• Richard Gasquet vs. Yibing Wu
• Pedro Cachin vs. Cristian Garin
• Constant Lestienne vs. Laslo Djere: wednesday
• Luca Van Assche vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: wednesday
• Marton Fucsovics beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-4, 6-2
• Stan Wawrinka beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 6-4