Rome Masters: De Minaur moves into third round

Australian Alex de Minaur, the No 9 seed, won against Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Saturday.

De Minaur, ranked No 11, will face the winner of the match between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 18 seed, and Dutch qualifier Botic van de Zandschulp next.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, Carballes Baena, ranked No 62, benefitted from the abandonment of Australian Christopher O’Connell (6-7 (7), 5-0).

Rome 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
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Jaume Munar vs. Cameron Norrie
• Sebastian Baez vs. Dusan Lajovic: saturday
• Arthur Fils vs. Alexandre Muller: saturday
• Jack Draper vs. Daniil Medvedev: saturday
• Dominik Koepfer beat Frances Tiafoe (22): 6-4, 6-2
• Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat Juncheng Shang (LL): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-0
• Tommy Paul (14) beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 6-2
• Hubert Hurkacz (7) beat Rafael Nadal: 6-1, 6-3
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (30): 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry (25) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-3, 7-5
• Nicolas Jarry (21) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Novak Djokovic (1) beat Corentin Moutet (LL): 6-3, 6-1
• Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Matteo Gigante (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Casper Ruud (5): 0-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Taylor Fritz (11) beat Fabio Fognini (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Alejandro Tabilo (29) beat Yannick Hanfmann: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Karen Khachanov (16) 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