Italian Open: Wang Xiyu sees off Begu to take place in round three
Xiyu Wang beat Irina-Camelia Begu 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday and will play the winner of the match between qualifier Taylor Townsend and No 3 seed Jessica Pegula in the next round
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Chinese Xiyu Wang moved into the first round of the Italian Open by winning against Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu, the No 31 seed, 6-4, 7-5 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday.
Wang, ranked No 75, will face the winner of the match between qualifier Taylor Townsend and No 3 seed Jessica Pegula next.
In the previous round of the Rome tournament, the 22-year-old Chinese beat Italian wildcard Lucrezia Stefanini (7-6 (2), 7-6 (2)).
Rome WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Jil Teichmann vs. Julia Grabher
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Danka Kovinic
- Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Martina Trevisan vs. Karolina Muchova
- Claire Liu vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Ons Jabeur vs. Paula Badosa
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
- Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Maria Sakkari vs. Barbora Strycova
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Donna Vekic vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
- Iga Swiatek vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Sofia Kenin vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Caroline Garcia vs. Ana Bogdan
- Taylor Townsend vs. Jessica Pegula
- Camila Osorio vs. Petra Martic
- Alize Cornet vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Anna Blinkova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Madison Keys
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Catherine McNally vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Magda Linette vs. Linda Noskova
- Coco Gauff vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Victoria Azarenka (14) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-4, 6-3
- Anna Bondar (Q) beat Karolina Pliskova (13): 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Veronika Kudermetova (11) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 7-5, 6-2
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