Rome Masters: Zverev books spot in third round

German Alexander Zverev, the No 3 seed, beat Australian Aleksandar Vukic 6-0, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.

Zverev, ranked No 5, will face Italian Luciano Darderi next.

Vukic, ranked No 70, won against Argentinian qualifier Diego Schwartzman (6-2, 6-2) 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):

• Luca Nardi vs. Holger Rune
• Marcos Giron vs. Andrey Rublev
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Jaume Munar vs. Cameron Norrie
• Sebastian Baez vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Jack Draper vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Arthur Fils vs. Alexandre Muller
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Alex De Minaur
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Rafael Nadal
• Tommy Paul vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Juncheng Shang vs. Stefano Napolitano
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Novak Djokovic vs. Corentin Moutet
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Matteo Gigante
• Taylor Fritz vs. Fabio Fognini
• Tallon Griekspoor vs. Francesco Passaro
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Casper Ruud
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Karen Khachanov
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Sebastian Korda: friday
• 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