Rome Masters: Kecmanovic knocks out fifth seed Ruud to advance to third round

Serb Miomir Kecmanovic edged out Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 5 seed, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 to move into the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Friday evening.

Kecmanovic, ranked No 58, will face Brazilian qualifier Thiago Monteiro next.

It was revenge for Ruud’s straight-sets win over him at Madrid two weeks ago.

The Serb defeated American qualifier Brandon Nakashima (6-4, 6-4) ahead of his victory.

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Tennis Majors

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 (20) beat Matteo Gigante (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• 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 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