2023 Italian Open: Fognini Upsets Murray in First Round

The 2023 Italian Open is properly underway, and all of the spherical of 128 matches are full.

The highest thirty-two seeds acquired a bye, so there have been no actual upsets, however we nonetheless witnessed some thrilling matches nonetheless.

Notably, house favorite Fabio Fognini put in a stellar efficiency to defeat Andy Murray in three units. On the similar time, former finalist Stan Wawrinka additionally delivered a stable exhibiting, cruising previous Ilya Ivashka 6-2 6-4.

Like Madrid final week, getting some matches below your belt in new circumstances proved very helpful as eight qualifiers progressed to the second spherical. Roman Safiullin was maybe essentially the most spectacular, defeating Marcos Giron 6-4 6-3.

It was additionally an okay opening spherical for the house hopefuls, with 4 Italians making it into the spherical of 64.

You possibly can see the total first-round outcomes beneath.

Spherical of 128 Italian Open 2023 Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Matteo Arnaldi (WC)
Diego Schwartzman
6-1 4-6 6-3

Alex Molcan
Stefano Napolitano (Q)
6-4 3-6 7-6(1)

Daniel Altmaier (Q)
Giulio Zeppieri (WC)
7-6(3) 4-6 6-0

Sebastian Baez
Juan Pablo Varillas
7-5 6-3

Gregoire Barrere
Brandon Nakashima
6-3 6-3

Nuno Borges
Dusan Lajovic
6-4 6-1

Alexander Bublik
Pedro Martinez (Q)
6-3 7-6(4)

Roberto Carballes Baena
Hugo Dellien (PR)
6-2 6-3

Marco Cecchinato
Mackenzie McDonald
6-3 7-5

Laslo Djere
Fixed Lestienne
6-1 (RET)

Tomas Martin Etcheverry
Luca Van Assche
7-6(7) 6-3

Arthur Fils (Q)
Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q)
6-1 1-6 6-4

Fabio Fognini (WC)
Andy Murray
6-4 4-6 6-4

Marton Fucsovics
Filip Krajinovic
6-4 6-2

Cristian Garin
Pedro Cachin
6-4 3-6 7-6(5)

David Goffin
Luca Nardi (WC)
3-6 6-4 6-2

Yannick Hanfmann (Q)
Nicolas Jarry
6-4 6-4

Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q)
Jaume Munar
4-2 (RET)

Jason Kubler
Marc-Andrea Huesler
6-7(6) 6-4 6-2

Fabian Marozsan (Q)
Corentin Moutet
6-0 6-7(8) 6-2

Thiago Monteiro
Adrian Mannarino
6-1 6-2

Alexandre Muller (Q)
Kyle Edmund (PR)
6-1 6-3

Guido Pella (PR)
Maxime Cressy
6-3 6-4

Alexei Popyrin (Q)
Christopher O’Connell
6-2 7-6(5)

Albert Ramos-Vinolas
Francesco Passaro (WC)
4-6 6-1 6-4

Arthur Rinderknech
Flavio Cobolli (Q)
6-4 6-3

Emil Ruusuvuori
Ugo Humbert
6-4 3-6 7-6(6)

Roman Safiullin (Q)
Marcos Giron
6-4 6-3

Lorenzo Sonego
Jeremy Chardy (PR)
6-2 6-1

Stan Wawrinka
Ilya Ivashka
6-2 6-4

J.J. Wolf
Hugo Grenier (LL)
7-5 7-5

Yibing Wu
Richard Gasquet
3-6 6-3 6-3

Fognini Foils Murray

Andy Murray arrived in Rome off the again of successful the Aix en Provence Challenger Title and reaching his highest world rating in 5 years, however he ran straight into Fabio Fognini, who pulled off a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory in entrance of a delighted house crowd.

Fognini has had an injury-riddled season to date, selecting up simply two match wins. Nonetheless, on his day, he’s nonetheless one of many cleanest ball strikers on tour and has a really fluid sport, particularly on clay, whereas Murray has to work time beyond regulation for all of his factors, proving the distinction.

For positive, I’m completely satisfied as a result of getting back from damage is rarely straightforward, particularly at our age. However successful right here in Rome towards a extremely massive participant like Andy, I imply, I’m completely satisfied. Now it’s vital to get better, and let’s see how I get better I get up tomorrow as a result of it’s going to be tough and a pleasant query to my thoughts if I’ll get better properly. However I simply wish to get pleasure from this evening and go house with this victory. I used to be feeling actually good firstly of the clay in Estoril, I used to be taking part in nice. However I acquired injured, and I ended like a month, I used to be 10 days with the crutches. These sorts of matches give me loads of feelings and actually good reminiscences. Fognini on his victory over Murray.

Stan Begins Sturdy in Rome

Stan Wawrinka is a former Rome Masters 1000 finalist, and he made a stable begin on this version, defeating Ilya Ivashka 6-2 6-4 to arrange a showdown with Grigor Dimitrov.

Stan has performed some first rate tennis to date this 12 months however has simply fallen quick or ended up getting dragged into lengthy matches when he has possibilities to shut them up a lot sooner. No issues right here, although, as he misplaced simply six video games and if the circumstances keep as they’re, he may be harmful.

I used to be prepared for it. I’m taking part in properly. It was a very good first match and I’m actually completely satisfied to get via once more. I’ve been working laborious to get to this degree. I’m taking part in significantly better this 12 months, however I have to win extra matches. That’s what I’m lacking a bit, the boldness to win extra matches. However typically, the extent is nice. Wawrinka on his 12 months to date.

Ruusuvuori Rescues Victory

Emil Ruusuvuori escaped the jaws of defeat, saving two match factors towards Ugo Humbert earlier than prevailing 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(6).

The pair met in Madrid final week, with Ruusuvuori additionally coming via in two tie-break units, however he needed to dig a lot deeper in Rome, with each match factors being on the Humbert serve at 4-5, 40/30 within the third set, then at 5/6 within the deciding tie-break. His reward is a tie with third seed Daniil Medvedev.

Different Matches of Be aware

Spherical of 64 Matches

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