Rome Masters: Darderi reaches third round

Italian Luciano Darderi advanced to the third round of the Rome Masters by winning against Argentinian Mariano Navone, the No 28 seed, 6-3, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.

Darderi, ranked No 54, will play the winner of the match between German Alexander Zverev, the No 3 seed, and Australian Aleksandar Vukic next.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, the 22-year-old Italian edged out Canadian Denis Shapovalov (6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4)).

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
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Sebastian Korda
• Alexander Zverev vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Jordan Thompson vs. Thiago Monteiro: friday
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Adrian Mannarino (19): 6-1, 6-3
• Ben Shelton vs. Pavel Kotov: friday
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Grigor Dimitrov: friday
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Lorenzo Musetti (26): 7-5, 1-0 ret.
• Nuno Borges beat Alexander Bublik (15): 6-4, 6-4