ATP 1000 Rome

Seeds

1   Novsk Djokovic

2   Danill Medvedev

3   Alexander Zverev

4    Andrey Rublev

5    Casper Ruud

6    Stefanos Tsitsipas

7    Hubert Hurkacz

8    Grigor Dimitrov

9    Alex de Minaur

10    Holger Rune 

11    Taylor Fritz

12     Ben Shelton

13    Ugo Humbert

14     Tommy Paul

15     Alexander Bublik

16     Karen Khachanov

17     Sebastian Baez

18     Felix Auger-Aliassime

19     Adrian Mannarino

20     Francisco Cerundolo

21      Nicolas  Jarry

22      Frances  Tiafoe

23     Tallon Griekspoor

24     Sebastian Korda

25     Tomas Manual Etcheverry

26     Lorenzo Musetti

27     Cameron Norrie

28     Mariano  Navone

29    Alejandro Tabilo

30    Alejandro Davidovich Fokina

31    Arthur Fils

32     Jordan Thompson

ROUND 2/3

Top Half of the Draw

1     Novak Djokovic                                      vs       29    Alejandro Tabilo

16     Karen Khachanov                                 vs      20     Francisco Cerundolo            

12     Ben Shelton                                           vs       Zhizheng Zhang

Miomir Kecmanovic                                       vs      Thiago Momteiro      

3       Alexander Zverev                                   vs       Luciano Darderi

Francesco Passaro                                          vs       Nuno Borges   

11     Taylor Fritz                                              vs      24     Sebastian Korda

8        Grigor Dimitrov                                     vs       Terence Atmane 

Bottom Half of the Draw

6      Stefanos Tsitsipas                                     vs      27    Cameron Norrie

9      Alex de Minaur                                         vs      18    Felix Auger-Alliassime

21    Nicolas Jarry                                            vs       Stafano Napolitano

4     Andrey Rublev                                          vs       Alexandre Muller

7     Hubert Hurkacz                                        vs       25   Tomas Manual Etcheverry

10    Holger Rune                                            vs        17    Sebastian Baez  

14    Tommy Paul                                            vs        Dominik Koepfer    

2     Danill Medvedev                                      vs       Hamed Medjedovic   

Today is the second day of matches between unseedded an qualifying players.  The 16 such matches were interrupted by rain yeserday and only 11 of the 16  matches were completed - so there are 21 matches scheduled for today - 5 iro the Top Half of the Draw  and  16 iro the Bottom Half of the Draw matches.   

In Madrid the Roubd 2 matches cause havoc in Round 2 and 3 ad marred by injury of top players - will it be repeated in Rome?   Tus far th is yeaar Djokovic has been under-performing in all the tournamnts he played in and with the French Open  just about 2 weeks away it will be interesting to see whther he will recover form in the Rome Torunament.   The other player that would be interestig to watch is Rublev.   After being unable to get past Round 2 in torunamen since the Dubai psychological  disaster - he surprisingly won in the Madrid Open.       

Saturday and Sunday arre reserved for the Round 3 matches and the Round 4 matches are to be played on Monday and Tuesday next week.   

ROUND 4

Top Half of the Draw

16   Karen Khachanov                            vs        29   Alejandro Tabilo    

Zhizheng Zhang                                     vs         Thiago Momteiro      

3       Alexander Zverev                          vs          Nuno Borges   

8        Grigor Dimitrov                            vs          11     Taylor Fritz   

7 of the 16 seeds involved lost their Round 2 matches 

Will the same happen today when it comes to the Bottom Half of the Draw? 

Bottom Half of the Draw

6        Stefanos Tsitsipas                          vs      9       Alex de Minaur

21      Nicolas Jarry                                  vs       Alexandre Muller

7  Hubert Hurkacz                                   vs        17       Sebastian Baez  

2    Danill Medvedev                               vs        14      Tommy Paul  

4  of the 16 seeded players  were eliminated 

What happened to Djokovic - he lost badly against the number 31 ranked player in the world?   Djokovic said last year that he will play unil he is not competitive anymore.   Thus far this year he was not competitive in any of the tournamens he played in  - so is he going to stay around much longer?   THAT WOULD INDEED BE A GEAT PITY FOR INTERNATIONAL TENNIS.   

He is defending Champion in the French Open starting two weeks from now.   - but is not going to perform if this match is borne in mind.   However, Djokovic claimed his loss was due to be hit by accident by a bottle when signing balls and hats - etc on Friday -  but that seems unlikely since he was claiming otherwisse on Saturday - making a joke about the incident.    .       

SEMIFINALS

3        Alexander Zverev                vs         29      Alejandro Tabilo

 14      Tommy Paul                        vs         21      Nicolas Jarry        

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FINAL

3        Alexander Zverev        vs         21  Nicolas Jarry

If Zverev beats Jerry in the final he will become the number 4 ranking and Medvedev will go to number 5 ranked player.  Since the start of he touramen when he was no 24 rankd player in the world Jarrie  moved to the number 17 ranked player and a win today will move  to no 15 ranked  player - with a much easier draw to be expected  in the French Open. 

Toornament Champsion      -     Alexander Zverev 

Congrats to Zverev -  with this win he moved up to the number 4 payer in the World  - and he must be close to be favorite to win in Paris starting next week.