Italian Open: Keys through to face Azarenka in round three

American Madison Keys, the No 19 seed, moved into the third round of the Italian Open by winning against Pole qualifier Magdalena Frech 6-3, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday afternoon.

Keys, ranked No 23, will play Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 14 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Frech, ranked No 94, edged out Italian wildcard Matilde Paoletti (4-6, 6-2, 7-5).

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
• Camila Osorio vs. Petra Martic
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Alize Cornet vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Taylor Townsend vs. Jessica Pegula
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Anna Blinkova: thursday
• Marie Bouzkova (27) beat Catherine McNally: 6-4, 6-3
• Magda Linette (17) beat Linda Noskova: 7-6 (4), 6-1
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-0, 6-1
• Victoria Azarenka beat Sloane Stephens: 6-4, 6-3
• Xiyu Wang beat Irina-Camelia Begu (31): 6-4, 7-5
• Anna Bondar (Q) beat Karolina Pliskova (13): 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Veronika Kudermetova (11) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 7-5, 6-2