Rome Masters: Fritz books spot in third round, sets up Korda clash
Taylor Fritz defeated Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-4 on Friday evening. He’ll play American Sebastian Korda, the No 24 seed, in the next round
Taylor Fritz in Rome 2024 (Inside/Panoramic)
American Taylor Fritz, the No 11 seed, advanced to the third round of the Rome Masters by beating Italian wildcard Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Friday evening.
Fritz, ranked No 13, will play American Sebastian Korda, the No 24 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Italian Open, Fognini, ranked No 92, won against Daniel Evans (6-4, 3-6, 6-2).
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
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Matteo Gigante: friday
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Casper Ruud: friday
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Alejandro Tabilo: friday
- 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 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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