Italian Open 2026 Day Six Recap

Day Six on the Foro Italico delivered a mixture of predictable dominance and feel-good tales.

Jannik Sinner cruised into the fourth spherical with a ruthless efficiency, whereas Italian qualifier Andrea Pellegrino produced the results of his profession to arrange a extremely anticipated all-Italian showdown towards the World No. 1.

The day additionally noticed continued success for underdogs, with Thiago Agustin Tirante pulling off a robust upset over Flavio Cobolli, whereas Basilashvili (Q) and Landaluce (LL) booked their shock spots within the fourth spherical.

Full recap beneath.

Day 5 Italian Open 2026 Spherical of 32 Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Jannik Sinner (1)
Alexei Popyrin
6-2 6-0

Andrea Pellegrino (Q)
Frances Tiafoe (20)
7-6(8) 6-1

Andrey Rublev (12)
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (21)
6-4 6-4

Nikoloz Basilashvili (Q)
Brandon Nakashima (30)
7-6(5) 6-4

Hamad Medjedovic
Mariano Navone
4-6 6-3 6-4

Martin Landaluce (LL)
Mattia Bellucci
6-4 6-3

Daniil Medvedev (7)
Pablo Llamas Ruiz (Q)
3-6 6-4 6-2

Thiago Agustin Tirante
Flavio Cobolli (10)
6-3 6-4

Key Match Recap

Jannik Sinner (1) def. Alexei Popyrin 6-2 6-0

The World No. 1 was in ruthless type, producing a dominant straight-sets win to succeed in the fourth spherical. Sinner barely put a foot fallacious, hitting exact drop photographs and controlling the baseline exchanges.

With this victory, he prolonged his Masters 1000 profitable streak to 30 matches and joined Novak Djokovic as solely the second participant to win his first 25 Masters matches of a season. He’ll face fellow Italian Andrea Pellegrino subsequent.

Popyrin beat Sinner a couple of years again in Madrid, however even profitable factors seemed like an uphill battle for him right here. Sadly, Sinner has zero competitors proper now.

Andrea Pellegrino (Q) def. Frances Tiafoe (20) 7-6(8) 6-1

The fairytale run continues for the Italian qualifier. Ranked World No. 155, Pellegrino saved a number of set factors in a tense first-set tiebreak earlier than cruising by the second set. This is without doubt one of the largest wins of his profession, and he turns into one of many lowest-ranked gamers to succeed in the Rome final 16 this century. An enormous enhance for the house crowd, and he’ll now face Sinner on Campo Centrale, the place his journey ends 😁

Martin Landaluce (LL) def. Mattia Bellucci 6-4 6-3

The 20-year-old Spanish fortunate loser saved his sturdy week going with a assured win over house favorite Bellucci. Landaluce has made essentially the most of his fortunate loser standing as he appears to be like to duplicate what he did in Miami on the clay.

Nikoloz Basilashvili (Q) def. Brandon Nakashima (30) 7-6(5) 6-4

One other spectacular win for the veteran Georgian qualifier. Basilashvili backed up his earlier upset of Ben Shelton with a strong straight-sets victory over Nakashima.

He’s having a career-resurgence week in Rome and is at all times harmful together with his crunching sport model, which presents one thing somewhat bit completely different to what most gamers serve up nowadays.

Andrey Rublev (12) def. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (21) 6-4 6-4

A clear and environment friendly efficiency from Rublev. He managed the match properly towards a harmful opponent and moved safely into the fourth spherical at a Masters 1000 for the primary time this 12 months.

Arguably his finest win of the season, as he’s been shedding to all comers, and the final time he beat somebody ranked within the prime 20 was in Cincinnati final 12 months (Popyrin).

Daniil Medvedev (7) def. Pablo Llamas Ruiz (Q) 3-6 6-4 6-2

Medvedev needed to battle again from a set down however ultimately powered by to succeed in the fourth spherical for the fourth straight 12 months. It marked his one hundredth profession Masters 1000 victory, and he’s completed properly in Madrid & Rome since they went to the 2-week format. Darkish horse? Perhaps, however I doubt he beats Sinner.

Thiago Agustin Tirante def. Flavio Cobolli (10) 6-3 6-4

Massive upset on house soil. Tirante took out the Tenth-seeded Italian with some spectacular firepower. Cobolli is an explosive participant himself, however he acquired caught off guard and overpowered by the Argentine, whose forehand + serve did a variety of injury.

Cobolli remains to be a bit too streaky for my liking, and I don’t see him profitable many matches the place he has to determine a option to play on the fly.

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