On May 10, the second round of the Rome Masters ATP1000 be contested. Zhang Zhizhen, the first brother of the Chinese men's tennis team, will face the tournament's No. 19 seed Mannarino. In this match, Zhang Zhizhen easily defeated his opponent in straight sets, and broke into the round of 32 for the first time in his career.
In the first set, Zhang Zhizhen took the lead in the second game to complete the break, and in the fourth game, Zhang Zhizhen broke the opponent's serve again, and once took a 5-0 lead in the first set. In the 7th game, Zhang Zhizhen successfully held serve in the love game of the service game and won the first set 6-1.
In the second set, the two sides held serve in the first six games, and Zhang Zhizhen took the lead in the seventh game to break serve and take a 4-3 lead. In the 9th game, Zhang Zhizhen broke serve again with 4 consecutive points in the opponent's inevitable game, and won the second set 6-3.
In a match that lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes, Zhang defeated 19th seed Granarino 6-1, 6-3 to reach the round of 32 at the Rome Masters for the first time in his career. Zhang will next face the winner of No.12 seeds Shelton and Kotov for a place in the round of 16.