Rome Masters: Moutet sets up Djokovic clash
Corentin Moutet defeated Roman Safiullin 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2 on Thursday afternoon and will play top seed Novak Djokovic in the next round
Corentin_Moutet_Monte-Carlo_2024 – Chryslène Caillaud / Panoramic
French lucky loser Corentin Moutet advanced to the second round of the Rome Masters by defeating Russian Roman Safiullin 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Thursday.
Moutet, ranked No 83, will play top seed Novak Djokovic next.
Roma Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
- Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini
- Jack Draper vs. Borna Coric: thursday
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev
- Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Pedro Cachin
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Marcos Giron
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Harold Mayot vs. Matteo Arnaldi: thursday
- Miomir Kecmanovic beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Matteo Gigante (WC) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
- Rafael Nadal beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (7)
- Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2
- Dominik Koepfer beat Andrea Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3
- Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Gregoire Barrere (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- Jaume Munar beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-4, 7-5
- Aleksandar Vukic beat Diego Schwartzman (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Terence Atmane (Q) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-4, 6-4
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 6-2
- Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Gael Monfils: 6-2, 7-5
- 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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