Rome Masters: De Minaur outlasts Auger-Aliassime to move into fourth round

Australian Alex de Minaur, the No 9 seed, edged out Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 18 seed, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the fourth round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Monday.

Auger-Aliassime came back from a break down early in the third set to level the decider at 3-3 but de Minaur held on to a second break of serve to close out the three-hour marathon encounter.

This was the Australian’s 25th win of the season and his first over Auger-Aliassime in three career meetings.

De Minaur, ranked No 11, will play the winner of the match between Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 6 seed, and No 27 seed Cameron Norrie next.

In the previous round of the tournament, the Australian beat Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena (6-3, 6-2).

Auger-Aliassime, ranked No 20, won against Dutch qualifier Botic van de Zandschulp (6-1, 7-6 (6)) earlier in the week.

Rome Masters 1000, other third-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7,877,020):

• Zhizhen Zhang beat Ben Shelton (12): 6-2, 6-4
• Alexander Zverev (3) beat Luciano Darderi: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Taylor Fritz (11) beat Sebastian Korda (24): 6-3, 6-4
• Alejandro Tabilo (29) beat Novak Djokovic (1): 6-2, 6-3
• Grigor Dimitrov (8) beat Terence Atmane (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Karen Khachanov (16) beat Francisco Cerundolo (20): 6-2, 6-4
• Nuno Borges beat Francesco Passaro (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (4)
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (6)
• Hamad Medjedovic vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Sebastian Baez vs. Holger Rune
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Tommy Paul vs. Dominik Koepfer
• Alexandre Muller vs. Andrey Rublev
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Cameron Norrie

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