Rome Masters: Borges ousts Bublik to make third round

Portuguese Nuno Borges moved into the third round of the Rome Masters by winning against Kazakh Alexander Bublik, the No 15 seed, 6-4, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.

Borges, ranked No 53, will play the winner of the match between Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor, the No 23 seed, and Italian qualifier Francesco Passaro next.

Ahead of his victory, the Portuguese edged out Spaniard Pedro Martinez (6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (8)).

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

• Jack Draper vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Tommy Paul vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Luca Nardi vs. Holger Rune
• Sebastian Baez vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Rafael Nadal
• Marcos Giron vs. Andrey Rublev
• Arthur Fils vs. Alexandre Muller
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Juncheng Shang vs. Stefano Napolitano
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Alex De Minaur
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Jaume Munar vs. Cameron Norrie
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Novak Djokovic vs. Corentin Moutet
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Matteo Gigante
• Taylor Fritz vs. Fabio Fognini
• Tallon Griekspoor vs. Francesco Passaro
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Casper Ruud
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Karen Khachanov
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Alexander Zverev vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Jordan Thompson vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Sebastian Korda
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Luciano Darderi vs. Mariano Navone
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Ben Shelton vs. Pavel Kotov
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Lorenzo Musetti (26): 7-5, 1-0 ret.