Rome Masters: Monteiro holds off Monfils to reach second round

Thiago Monteiro defeated Gael Monfils 6-2, 7-5 on Wednesday and will face No 32 seed Jordan Thompson in the next round

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Internazionali BNL d'Italia •First round • completed
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Brazilian qualifier Thiago Monteiro reached the second round of the Rome Masters by beating Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-2, 7-5 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Wednesday afternoon.

Monteiro, ranked No 106, will play No 32 seed Jordan Thompson 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
  • Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Brandon Nakashima
  • Diego Schwartzman vs. Aleksandar Vukic
  • Christopher Eubanks vs. Terence Atmane
  • Arthur Rinderknech vs. Francesco Passaro
  • Alexander Shevchenko vs. Fabian Marozsan: wednesday
  • Flavio Cobolli beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-4, 6-2
  • Pavel Kotov beat Alex Michelsen: 6-1, 6-1
  • Yoshihito Nishioka beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
  • Nuno Borges beat Pedro Martinez: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (8)
  • 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

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