Rome Masters: Bublik advances to third round
Alexander Bublik beat Ben Shelton 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 on Friday evening. He’ll play the winner of the match between Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 4 seed, and Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech in the next round
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Kazakh Alexander Bublik won against American Ben Shelton, the No 28 seed, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 to move into the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Friday evening.
Bublik, ranked No 49, will face the winner of the match between Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 4 seed, and Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech next.
In the previous round of the Italian Open, the Kazakh defeated Spanish qualifier Pedro Martinez (6-3, 7-6 (4)).
Rome Masters, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Marco Cecchinato
- David Goffin vs. Alexander Zverev
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Taylor Fritz
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Nuno Borges
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jason Kubler
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. J.J. Wolf
- Guido Pella vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Daniel Evans
- Borna Coric vs. Thiago Monteiro
- Andrey Rublev vs. Alex Molcan
- Casper Ruud vs. Arthur Rinderknech: friday
- Arthur Fils vs. Holger Rune: friday
- Novak Djokovic vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: friday
- Cristian Garin beat Tommy Paul (16): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Miomir Kecmanovic (30): 6-3, 7-6 (6)
- Gregoire Barrere beat Karen Khachanov (11): 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Laslo Djere beat Botic van de Zandschulp (23): 6-2, 6-4
- Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Sebastian Korda (22): 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Grigor Dimitrov (26) beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Alexander Shevchenko (LL) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-3, 6-4
- Marton Fucsovics beat Alex De Minaur (17): 6-3, 6-4
- Jannik Sinner (8) beat Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q): 6-1, 6-4
- Francisco Cerundolo (24) beat Yibing Wu: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Alexei Popyrin (Q) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (10): 6-4, 4-6, 7-5
- Cameron Norrie (13) beat Alexandre Muller (Q): 6-2, 6-3
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