Rome Masters: Sonego races past Chardy and into second round

Italian Lorenzo Sonego won against Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-2, 6-1 to move into the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico on Thursday afternoon.

Sonego, ranked No 48, will face No 25 seed Yoshihito Nishioka 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: thursday
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Yannick Hanfmann: thursday
• Nuno Borges beat Dusan Lajovic: 6-4, 6-1
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas beat Francesco Passaro (WC): 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Guido Pella beat Maxime Cressy: 6-3, 6-4
• Marco Cecchinato beat Mackenzie McDonald: 6-3, 7-5
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Ugo Humbert: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6)
• David Goffin beat Luca Nardi (WC): 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Thiago Monteiro beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-1, 6-2
• Roberto Carballes Baena beat Hugo Dellien: 6-2, 6-3
• Daniel Altmaier (Q) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-0
• Jason Kubler beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-2
• Gregoire Barrere beat Brandon Nakashima: 6-3, 6-3
• Arthur Rinderknech beat Flavio Cobolli (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Andy Murray: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Roman Safiullin (Q) beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 6-3
• 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