Rain Delays Matches in Italian Open but Djokovic and Top Seeds Progress to Third Round

A rain-affected spherical of 64 on the 2023 Italian Open is nearing completion after a number of matches had been delayed till Sunday,

On Friday, Novak Djokovic acquired his marketing campaign underway with a gentle however far-from-perfect efficiency in opposition to Tomas Martin Etcheverry. Third seed Casper Ruud made brief work of Arthur Rinderknech.

There have been additionally spectacular wins for qualifiers Alexei Popyrin and Roman Safiullin, who noticed off tenth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime and twenty second seed Sebastian Korda, respectively. Nonetheless, just one can emerge within the final sixteen as they face off in opposition to one another within the third spherical.

Fabio Fognini additionally backed up his win in opposition to Andy Murray by eradicating the seeded Miomir Kecmanovic 6-3 7-6(6).

On Saturday, the rain wreaked havoc with the schedule, with a number of matches unable to be accomplished and much more postponed till Sunday with out even beginning.

Of these fortunate sufficient to complete their matches, Carlos Alcaraz got here from a breakdown within the first set to dispatch Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-4 6-1, whereas Andrey Rublev made gentle work of Alex Molcan with a 6-3 6-4 win.

On Sunday, Daniil Medvedev gained his first match in Rome 6-4, 6-2 over Emil Ruusuvuori. On the identical time, Stefanos Tsitsipas didn’t take lengthy to complete his match in opposition to Nuno Borges, which he led by a set and a break in a single day.

Qualifier Yannick Hanfmann was accountable for the best seed to fall within the second spherical, with a powerful 6-4 6-1 over Taylor Fritz.

You possibly can see the whole listing of second-round outcomes under.

Spherical of 64 Italian Open 2023 Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Novak Djokovic (1)
Tomas Martin Etcheverry
7-6(5) 6-2

Carlos Alcaraz (2)
Albert Ramos-Vinolas
6-4 6-1

Daniil Medvedev (3)
Emil Ruusuvuori
6-4 6-2

Casper Ruud (4)
Arthur Rinderknech
6-4 6-0

Stefanos Tsitsipas (5)
Nuno Borges
6-3 6-3

Andrey Rublev (6)
Alex Molcan
6-3 6-4

Holger Rune (7)
Arthur Fils (Q)
6-3 6-3

Jannik Sinner (8)
Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q)
6-1 6-4

Yannick Hanfmann (Q)
Taylor Fritz (9)
6-4 6-1

Alexei Popyrin (Q)
Felix Auger-Aliassime (10)
6-4 4-6 7-5

Gregoire Barrere
Karen Khachanov (11)
4-6 6-4 7-6(4)

Frances Tiafoe (12)
Daniel Altmaier (Q)
3-6 7-5 6-3

Cameron Norrie (13)
Alexandre Muller (Q)
6-2 6-3

J.J. Wolf
Hubert Hurkacz (14)
6-3 6-4

Borna Coric (15)
Thiago Monteiro
4-6 7-6(8) 7-6(5)

Cristian Garin
Tommy Paul (16)
4-6 6-3 6-4

Marton Fucsovics
Alex de Minaur (17)
6-3 6-4

Lorenzo Musetti (18)
Matteo Arnaldi (W)
6-4 6-4

Alexander Zverev (19)
David Goffin
5-7 6-3 6-4

Roberto Carballes Baena
Daniel Evans (20)
7-6(5) 5-7 6-4

Marco Cecchinato
Roberto Bautista Agut (21)
6-2 6-2

Roman Safiullin (Q)
Sebastian Korda (22)
6-2 7-6(5)

Laslo Djere
Botic van de Zandschulp (23)
6-2 6-4

Francisco Cerundolo (24)
Yibing Wu
4-6 6-2 6-3

Lorenzo Sonego
Yoshihito Nishioka (25)
7-5 6-3

Grigor Dimitrov (26)
Stan Wawrinka
6-4 7-6(3)

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (27)
Guido Pella (PR)
6-0 7-6(4)

Alexander Bublik
Ben Shelton (28)
6-4 1-6 6-2

Fabio Fognini (WC)
Miomir Kecmanovic (30
6-3 7-6(6)

Bernabe Zapata Miralles (31)
Jason Kubler
6-4 6-1

Fabian Marozsan (Q)
Jiri Lehecka (32)
4-6 6-1 7-6(4)

Alexander Shevchenko (LL)
Sebastian Baez
6-3 6-4

Djokovic Makes Profitable Return

Novak Djokovic’s Rome marketing campaign is up and working. Whereas it wasn’t classic in opposition to Tomas Martin Etcheverry, the six-time Rome Masters champion performed nicely in patches and prolonged the rallies when wanted en path to a 7-6(5), 6-2 victory.

Djokovic has been battling an elbow drawback, and whereas he seems to have shrugged that off, he coping with some illness through the match, hunching over a few instances and taking some type of remedy at a changeover.

Nonetheless not the specified stage, nonetheless discovering the photographs and discovering that groove on the courtroom. It’s at all times a bit bit tough enjoying somebody for the primary time. He’s a clay-court specialist. He began higher than I did, I began fairly sluggish, however I discovered my groove in direction of the tip of the primary. The second set was good, particularly the final three or 4 video games. I’m proud of the way in which I closed out the match. Djokovic on his opening win in Rome.

Popyrin Pops Off Auger-Aliassime

Alexei Popyrin entered Rome as a qualifier, however he’s but to lose to anybody within the prime 10 this season, enhancing to 3-0 with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 over tenth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime.

The Canadian is to date winless within the two clay courtroom occasions he’s performed, and though he fired 38 winners, it was Popyrin who performed nicely on the enterprise finish with some massive hitting of his personal to interrupt within the eleventh recreation of the ultimate set.

Dimitrov Downs Wawrinka

Grigor Dimitrov will face Novak Djokovic within the third spherical due to a 6-4, 7-6(3) over Stan Wawrinka.

It was a stable efficiency from the Bulgarian, who used a come-forward method, and he’s now only one behind within the H2H, which stands at 6-7 in favour of Wawrinka.

Whereas Grigor performed nicely, Stan has second-round syndrome, and he can’t appear to win back-to-back matches or play nicely for 2 on the spin. He made far too many tender errors in opposition to Dimitrov, and I’d hoped to see him put collectively a good run at one of many pre-French Open tournaments.

I’m simply comfortable I used to be in a position to end in straight units. Total, I felt good. It’s been some time since I’ve performed matches like that. Off the blocks to play Stan is rarely simple. We’ve performed so many instances in opposition to one another; we all know what we’re going to do in a variety of moments. I feel immediately was a really small margin. Dimitrov on his win over Wawrinka.

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