Rome Masters: Struff advances to face Tsitsipas

German Jan-Lennard Struff won against Argentinian Pedro Cachin 6-4, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.

Struff, ranked No 41, will play No 6 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas next.

Rome Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):

• Daniel Altmaier vs. Luca Nardi
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Aslan Karatsev: thursday
• Alexandre Muller vs. Marton Fucsovics: thursday
• Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini: thursday
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Botic van de Zandschulp: thursday
• Marcos Giron beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Roberto Carballes Baena beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-7 (7), 5-0 ret.
• Jack Draper beat Borna Coric: 7-5, 6-1
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Harold Mayot (LL): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Brandon Nakashima (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Roman Safiullin: 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2
• Matteo Gigante (WC) beat Giulio Zeppieri (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Rafael Nadal beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Francesco Passaro (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (7)
• Hamad Medjedovic (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2
• Dominik Koepfer beat Andrea Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Gregoire Barrere (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Jaume Munar beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-4, 7-5
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Diego Schwartzman (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Terence Atmane (Q) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-4, 6-4
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 6-2
• Thiago Monteiro (Q) beat Gael Monfils: 6-2, 7-5
• Flavio Cobolli beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Pavel Kotov beat Alex Michelsen: 6-1, 6-1
• Yoshihito Nishioka beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Nuno Borges beat Pedro Martinez: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (8)
• Luciano Darderi beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Jakub Mensik: 6-3, 6-2
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-2, 7-5