Australian Jordan Thompson edged out Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) to reach the second round of the Rome Masters at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Thompson, ranked No 41, will play No 28 seed Brandon Nakashima next.
Rome Masters 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 8.055.385, most recent results first):
Luca Nardi vs. Flavio Cobolli
Nuno Borges vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
Learner Tien vs. Reilly Opelka
Matteo Arnaldi vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
Fabian Marozsan vs. Joao Fonseca
Arthur Rinderknech vs. Matteo Gigante
Mattia Bellucci vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
Gabriel Diallo vs. Marcos Giron
Alexander Bublik vs. Roman Safiullin
Jacob Fearnley vs. Fabio Fognini
Aleksandar Vukic vs. Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Jaume Munar
Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Sebastian Ofner
Hugo Gaston vs. Nicolas Jarry
Jesper De Jong vs. Alexander Shevchenko
Mariano Navone vs. Federico Cina
Yunchaokete Bu vs. Luciano Darderi
Vilius Gaubas vs. Damir Dzumhur
Laslo Djere vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
Hamad Medjedovic vs. Otto Virtanen
Christopher O’Connell vs. Cameron Norrie
Francesco Passaro vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Dusan Lajovic
Lorenzo Sonego vs. Roman Andres Burruchaga
Vit Kopriva vs. Quentin Halys
Tallon Griekspoor vs. Miomir Kecmanovic: wednesday
Carlos Taberner vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic: wednesday
Camilo Ugo Carabelli vs. Pablo Carreno Busta: wednesday
Jiri Lehecka vs. Alexandre Muller: wednesday
Francisco Comesana beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-1, 7-5
Rinky Hijikata vs. Corentin Moutet: wednesday
