Rome Masters: Qualifier Safiullin sees off Giron to reach second round

Russian qualifier Roman Safiullin reached the second round of the Rome Masters by winning against American Marcos Giron 6-4, 6-3 at the Foro Italico on Wednesday evening.

Safiullin, ranked No 103, will face No 22 seed Sebastian Korda next.

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

• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Stefano Napolitano vs. Alex Molcan
• Hugo Grenier vs. J.J. Wolf
• Corentin Moutet vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Francesco Passaro
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Nuno Borges
• Guido Pella vs. Maxime Cressy
• Luca Nardi vs. David Goffin
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Thiago Monteiro
• Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Hugo Dellien vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Jason Kubler
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Fabio Fognini vs. Andy Murray: wednesday
• Alexei Popyrin (Q) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q) beat Jaume Munar: 4-2 ret.
• Arthur Fils (Q) beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q): 6-1, 1-6, 6-4
• Alexander Bublik beat Pedro Martinez (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-1, 6-3
• Yibing Wu beat Richard Gasquet: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Cristian Garin beat Pedro Cachin: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• 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