Rome Masters: Tsitsipas into third round after early racquet-smash
Stefanos Tsitsipas edged out Jan-Lennard Struff 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday evening. He’ll play No 27 seed Cameron Norrie in the next round
Stefanos Tsitsipas Rome – Inside/Panoramic
Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 6 seed, edged out German Jan-Lennard Struff 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Saturday evening.
Eighth seed Tsitsipas survived a tetchy beginning, during which he smashed a racquet, to clinch a meeting with No 27 seed Cameron Norrie next.
Struff, ranked No 41, defeated Argentinian Pedro Cachin (6-4, 6-4) in the previous round of the Italian Open.
Rome Masters 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 7.877.020, most recent results first):
- Marcos Giron vs. Andrey Rublev
- Luca Nardi vs. Holger Rune: saturday
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (18) beat Botic van de Zandschulp (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (6)
- Cameron Norrie beat Jaume Munar: 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
- Sebastian Baez (17) beat Dusan Lajovic: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6)
- Alexandre Muller (Q) beat Arthur Fils (31): 7-5, 6-3
- Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 6-4
- Alex De Minaur (9) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-3, 6-2
- Dominik Koepfer beat Frances Tiafoe (22): 6-4, 6-2
- Stefano Napolitano (WC) beat Juncheng Shang (LL): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-0
- Tommy Paul (14) beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 6-2
- 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
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