Rome - Germany's Alexander Zverev crashed out of the Italian Open on Tuesday with a 7-5, 7-5 loss to Italian wild card Matteo Berrettini in the second round.
The 33rd-ranked Italian survived four break points in the second set, breaking the German in the twelfth game to close 7-5 to the delight of the home crowd.
The 22-year-old Zverev had been seeded fourth in the final clay-court warm-up before the French Open later this month, and was playing his first game having received a first-round bye.
Results from the ATP and WTA Italian Open tournaments in Rome on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):
Women
1st round
Julia Goerges (GER x16) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) 6-3, 6-4
Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Aryna Sabalenka (BLR x9) 6-1, 6-4
Carla Suárez (ESP) bt Dayana Yastremska (UKR) 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
Darya Kasatkina (RUS) bt Irina Begu (ROU) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5)
Danielle Collins (USA) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x11) 7-6 (7/5), 0-0 retired
Maria Sakkari (GRE) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 6-1, 7-5
Men
1st round
Nick Kyrgios (AUS) bt Daniil Medvedev (RUS x12) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
David Goffin (BEL) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
Diego Schwartzman (ARG) bt Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) 6-1, 6-4
Taylor Fritz (USA) bt Guido Pella (ARG) 6-3, 6-4
Radu Albot (MDA) bt Benoît Paire (FRA) 6-3, 6-2
Jérémy Chardy (FRA) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA) 6-1, 4-6, 6-3