Italian Open: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova crushes Errani to earn meeting with top seed Swiatek

Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won against Italian wildcard Sara Errani 6-1, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Wednesday afternoon.

Pavlyuchenkova will face top seed Iga Swiatek next.

Rome WTA 1000, other 128 results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):

• Arantxa Rus vs. Camila Giorgi
• Paula Badosa vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Nuria Brancaccio vs. Julia Grabher
• Katie Volynets vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Camilla Rosatello vs. Claire Liu
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Tereza Martincova vs. Alize Cornet
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Danka Kovinic
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Elina Svitolina
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Lauren Davis: wednesday
• Taylor Townsend vs. Ysaline Bonaventure: wednesday
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Camila Osorio: wednesday
• Sloane Stephens beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-4, 6-1
• Magdalena Frech (Q) beat Matilde Paoletti (WC): 4-6, 6-2, 7-5
• Ana Bogdan beat Nao Hibino (Q): 7-5, 6-0
• Anna Bondar (Q) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-4, 6-1
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Leylah Fernandez: 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3
• Catherine McNally beat Dalila Spiteri (WC): 6-0, 6-1
• Anett Kontaveit beat Alycia Parks: 6-1, 6-1
• Jasmine Paolini beat Xinyu Wang: 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-2
• Sofia Kenin beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-3, 6-7 (8), 7-5
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-0, 4-6, 6-2
• Lisa Pigato (WC) beat Diletta Cherubini (WC): 7-5, 2-6, 6-3
• Linda Noskova beat Shelby Rogers: 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Xiyu Wang beat Lucrezia Stefanini (WC): 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2)
• Anna Blinkova beat Mayar Sherif: 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Jule Niemeier: 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Barbora Strycova beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-1, 3-6, 6-3