Italian Open 2024 Day 2 Recap

Day two on the 2024 Italian Open featured 10-time champion Rafael Nadal, who battled again to defeat qualifier Zizou Berge 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to kick off what is claimed to be his last Rome Masters.

Elsewhere, Francesco Passaro accomplished his comeback from yesterday, efficiently serving out the second set after it was halted final evening earlier than prevailing in a decent third set tiebreak the place he saved match level.

Extra Italian success wasn’t far behind. Stefano Napolitano took out fortunate loser JJ Wolf, Matteo Arnaldi defeated Harold Mayot, Fabio Fognini discovered a well past Dan Evans, and Luca Nardi aced Daniel Altmaier.

In truth, the one two Italians to fall have been Lorenzo Sonego, who misplaced to Dusan Lajovic and Giulio Zeppieri, who fell to fellow Italian Matteo Gigante.

You possibly can see the total outcomes from day two under.

Day Two Italian Open 2024 Spherical of 128 Outcomes

Nadal Battles Previous Bergs

Rafael Nadal wanted to indicate loads of resilience in his opening match on the 2024 Rome Masters, overcoming a sluggish begin to defeat Belgian qualifier Zizou Bergs 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

After breaking early, the 10-time champion went off the boil, permitting Bergs to take management, and he captured the opening set.

Nevertheless, even when effectively previous his prime, Nadal nonetheless performs with excessive depth and he elevated his shot energy over the subsequent two units, keeping off the 5 break factors he confronted to clinch the match in three units.

Nadal now prepares to face seventh seed Hubert Hurkacz, in opposition to whom he’ll want to scale back his unforced errors to face an opportunity in opposition to the most effective server on tour this season.

It was not my greatest match. I used to be practising higher than how I performed right now surely, however I discovered a solution to win. That’s so essential at the start of the event. My recreation is extra unpredictable than earlier than. I didn’t play a lot tennis for the previous two years, so it’s up and down. I feel I can do significantly better than I did right now and hope I can do it within the subsequent spherical. It’s all the time emotional to play right here. One of the vital essential occasions in my tennis profession. The gang has all the time been superb with me, supporting me because the starting of my tennis profession, so tremendous excited to play yet another time right here. Nadal on his win over Bergs

Draper Downs Coric

Jack Draper defeated Borna Coric, final yr’s quarterfinalist, 7-5, 6-1, in a single hour and 37 minutes. The lefty has the kind of recreation that may hassle all comers. He gained 92 per cent (35/38) of his first-serve factors and didn’t face a breakpoint.

Draper performs Medvedev in spherical two. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see how Medvedev shapes up after his damage scare in Madrid, which noticed him retire, however he seems to be feeling no sick results based mostly on the apply footage I’ve seen.

It was good all spherical. I served nice and moved rather well. My return was good. I attempted to be aggressive after I might. I assumed Borna performed wonderful within the first set. It was powerful; we have been each going at one another. Then, I feel my high quality was ok, and I gained a variety of these tight factors to get by way of. Draper on his win over Coric.

Day Two Highlights

Different Matches of Observe

Moutet Sinks Safiullin: A 3-6, 7-6(1), 6-2 win for the tough Frenchman to set a second-round assembly with World No. 1 Novak Djokovic.

Mededovic Picks Off Popyrin: The Serb has had a troubled begin to the season after coping with an sickness, however he got here by way of qualifying and comfortably noticed off the hard-hitting Aussie to e book his place within the spherical of 64.

Struff Stops Cachin: The German gained comfortably 6-4, 6-4, and can face Stefanos Tsitsipas within the subsequent spherical.

Giron Routs Ruusuvuori: A fifth straight loss for Ruusuvuori, who’s in a poor run of type, and Giron took him out 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Fognini Edges Evans: A 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 for the wildcard in a difficult match lasting 2 hours and 32 minutes. It was a really back-and-forth match, however Fognini utilized a lot strain within the third to run away with it 6-2.

Italian Open 2024 Day 3 Spherical of 64 Matches