Rome Masters: Medjedovic into third round, could face Medvedev next
Hamad Medjedovic beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Saturday. He’ll play the winner of the match between Jack Draper and Russian Daniil Medvedev, the second seed, in the next round
Hamad Medjedovic, Antwerp 2023 – © Shutterstock/SIPA
Serb qualifier Hamad Medjedovic won against Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the No 30 seed, 7-6 (4), 6-4 to advance to the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday.
Medjedovic, ranked No 121, will face the winner of the match between Jack Draper and Russian Daniil Medvedev, the second seed, next.
The 20-year-old Serb beat Australian Alexei Popyrin (6-3, 6-2) ahead of his victory.
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
- Tommy Paul vs. Aslan Karatsev
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. Rafael Nadal
- Juncheng Shang vs. Stefano Napolitano
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry: saturday
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Nicolas Jarry: saturday
- Novak Djokovic (1) beat Corentin Moutet (LL): 6-3, 6-1
- Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Matteo Gigante (WC): 6-1, 6-3
- Miomir Kecmanovic beat Casper Ruud (5): 0-6, 6-4, 6-4
- 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 (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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