Italian Open: Cocciaretto cruises into second round
Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Lauren Davis 6-3, 6-0 on Wednesday and will play No 23 seed Anastasia Potapova in the next round
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Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto reached the second round of the Italian Open by winning against American Lauren Davis 6-3, 6-0 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Wednesday afternoon.
Cocciaretto, ranked No 45, will face No 23 seed Anastasia Potapova next.
Rome WTA 1000, other first-round 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
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Danka Kovinic
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Elina Svitolina
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Viktoriya Tomova: wednesday
- Taylor Townsend vs. Ysaline Bonaventure: wednesday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Sara Errani (WC): 6-1, 6-1
- 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
