Rome Masters: Cerundolo moves into third round
Francisco Cerundolo won against Matteo Gigante 6-1, 6-3 on Friday evening and will play Russian Karen Khachanov, the No 16 seed, in the next round
Francisco Cerundolo at Roland-Garros in 2023 (JB Autissier/Panoramic)
Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 20 seed, reached the third round of the Rome Masters by winning against Italian wildcard Matteo Gigante 6-1, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Friday evening.
Cerundolo, ranked No 22, will face Russian Karen Khachanov, the No 16 seed, next.
Gigante, ranked No 139, beat wildcard Giulio Zeppieri (7-6 (2), 6-4) in the previous round of the Italian Open.
Roma 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: friday
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Casper Ruud: friday
- Taylor Fritz (11) beat Fabio Fognini (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Alejandro Tabilo: friday
- Karen Khachanov beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-4, 6-4
- Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Tallon Griekspoor (23): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Alexander Zverev (3) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-0, 6-4
- Sebastian Korda (24) beat Flavio Cobolli: 7-6 (6), 4-6, 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
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