The American battled into the round of 16 with a gritty - if erratic - effort.

Naomi Osaka is rising on the clay. Will she keep it up against Zheng Qinwen in Rome?

No. 9 Hubert Hurkacz hammered Rafael Nadal 6-1, 6-3 in what is likely the 37-year-old Spanish superstar’s final Rome match. 

World No. 1 Iga Swiatek won five straight games stopping Yulia Putintseva 6-3, 6-4, to reach the Rome round of 16.

Djokovic dropped just four games as he opened his bid for a seventh Rome title.

A wrist injury derailed Thiem's trajectory, but did not keep him from scaling the heights.