Rome Masters: Muller into third round
Alexandre Muller beat Arthur Fils 7-5, 6-3 on Saturday afternoon and will face the winner of the match between American Marcos Giron and Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 4 seed, in the next round
Qualifier Alexandre Muller beat No 31 seed Arthur Fils 7-5, 6-3 to move into the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday afternoon.
Muller, ranked No 109, will play the winner of the match between American Marcos Giron and Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 4 seed, next.
Alexandre Muller won against Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (4-6, 7-6 (5), 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
- 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
- Jack Draper vs. Daniil Medvedev: saturday
- 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 (Q) 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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