Defending champion Medvedev holds off Draper to reach third round in Rome
Daniil Medvedev won against Jack Draper 7-5, 6-4 on Saturday afternoon. He’ll face Serb qualifier Hamad Medjedovic in the next round
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Russian Daniil Medvedev, the second seed and defending champion, advanced to the third round of the Rome Masters by winning against Jack Draper 7-5, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Saturday.
Medvedev, ranked No 4, will play Serb qualifier Hamad Medjedovic next. It was his 100th Masters 1000 win.
In the previous round of the Italian Open, Draper, ranked No 40, beat Croat Borna Coric (7-5, 6-1).
Rome 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
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Jaume Munar vs. Cameron Norrie: saturday
- Sebastian Baez vs. Dusan Lajovic: saturday
- Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Arthur Fils (31): 7-5, 6-3
- Alex De Minaur (9) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-3, 6-2
- Dominik Koepfer beat Frances Tiafoe (22): 6-4, 6-2
- Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat Juncheng Shang (LL): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-0
- Tommy Paul (14) beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 6-2
- Hubert Hurkacz (7) beat Rafael Nadal: 6-1, 6-3
- Hamad Medjedovic beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (30): 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry (25) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-3, 7-5
- Nicolas Jarry (21) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
- 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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