Rome Masters: Djere moves into second round as Lestienne retires through injury

Serb Laslo Djere reached the second round of the Rome Masters when Frenchman Constant Lestienne retired on Wednesday at the Foro Italico.

Djere, ranked No 62, led 6-1 when Lestienne, ranked No 70, pulled out at the Foro Italico on Wednesday afternoon.

The Serb will face No 23 seed Botic van de Zandschulp next.

Rome Masters, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):

• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Francesco Passaro
• Corentin Moutet vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Hugo Dellien vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Nuno Borges
• Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Jason Kubler
• Luca Nardi vs. David Goffin
• Quentin Halys vs. J.J. Wolf
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Guido Pella vs. Maxime Cressy
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Alex Molcan
• Fabio Fognini vs. Andy Murray
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Jaume Munar vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Roman Safiullin vs. Marcos Giron
• Pedro Martinez vs. Alexander Bublik
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Arthur Fils
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Kyle Edmund vs. Alexandre Muller
• Richard Gasquet vs. Yibing Wu
• Pedro Cachin vs. Cristian Garin: wednesday
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Luca Van Assche: 7-6 (7), 6-3
• Sebastian Baez beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 7-5, 6-3
• Marton Fucsovics beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-4, 6-2
• Stan Wawrinka beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 6-4