Rome Masters: Kotov books spot in second round

Russian Pavel Kotov reached the second round of the Rome Masters by winning against American Alex Michelsen 6-1, 6-1 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Wednesday.

Kotov, ranked No 63, will face No 12 seed Ben Shelton next.

Roma Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):

• Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Andrea Vavassori
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Zizou Bergs vs. Rafael Nadal
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
• Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Tomas Machac vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Jaume Munar
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
• Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
• Matteo Gigante vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Terence Atmane
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Francesco Passaro
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Gael Monfils
• Maximilian Marterer vs. Flavio Cobolli: wednesday
• Yoshihito Nishioka beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Nuno Borges vs. Pedro Martinez: wednesday
• Luciano Darderi beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Jakub Mensik: 6-3, 6-2
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-2, 7-5