Rome Masters: Paul advances to third round

American Tommy Paul, the No 14 seed, defeated Russian Aslan Karatsev 6-4, 6-2 to move into the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday.

Paul, ranked No 16, will face the winner of the match between German Dominik Koepfer and American Frances Tiafoe, the No 22 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Italian Open, Karatsev, ranked No 86, edged out American Mackenzie McDonald (4-6, 6-3, 6-4).

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
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Sebastian Baez vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Arthur Fils vs. Alexandre Muller
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Jaume Munar vs. Cameron Norrie
• Jack Draper vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Alex De Minaur: saturday
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Frances Tiafoe: saturday
• Juncheng Shang vs. Stefano Napolitano: saturday
• 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