Rome Masters: Carballes Baena takes out Evans, into third round
Roberto Carballes Baena edged out Daniel Evans 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-4 on Saturday and will face Croat Borna Coric, the No 15 seed, in the next round
Roberto Carballes Baena AI/Reuters/Panoramic
Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena edged out No 20 seed Daniel Evans 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Saturday.
Carballes Baena, ranked No 51, will play Croat Borna Coric, the No 15 seed, next.
The Spaniard won against Hugo Dellien (6-2, 6-3) in the previous round of the Italian Open.
Rome Masters, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Taylor Fritz
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
- David Goffin vs. Alexander Zverev
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Marco Cecchinato
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Nuno Borges
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Yoshihito Nishioka: saturday
- Guido Pella vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Fabian Marozsan
- J.J. Wolf beat Hubert Hurkacz (14): 6-3, 6-4
- Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas: 6-4, 6-1
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles (31) beat Jason Kubler: 6-4, 6-1
- Borna Coric beat Thiago Monteiro: 4-6, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (5)
- Andrey Rublev (6) beat Alex Molcan: 6-3, 6-4
- Casper Ruud (4) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-4, 6-0
- Holger Rune (7) beat Arthur Fils (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Novak Djokovic (1) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Alexander Bublik beat Ben Shelton (28): 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
- 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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