Rome Masters: Muller through to second round

French qualifier Alexandre Muller defeated Kyle Edmund 6-1, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Wednesday.

Muller, ranked No 100, will face No 13 seed Cameron Norrie next.

Rome Masters, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.705.780, most recent results first):

• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Francesco Passaro
• Corentin Moutet vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Hugo Dellien vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Nuno Borges
• Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Jason Kubler
• Luca Nardi vs. David Goffin
• Quentin Halys vs. J.J. Wolf
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Guido Pella vs. Maxime Cressy
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Alex Molcan
• Fabio Fognini vs. Andy Murray
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Jaume Munar vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Roman Safiullin vs. Marcos Giron
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Arthur Fils: wednesday
• Pedro Martinez vs. Alexander Bublik: wednesday
• Richard Gasquet vs. Yibing Wu: wednesday
• Pedro Cachin vs. Cristian Garin: wednesday
• Laslo Djere beat Constant Lestienne: 6-1 ret.
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Luca Van Assche: 7-6 (7), 6-3
• Sebastian Baez beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 7-5, 6-3
• Marton Fucsovics beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-4, 6-2
• Stan Wawrinka beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 6-4