Italian Open: Badosa knocks out fourth seed Jabeur to reach third round
Paula Badosa defeated Ons Jabeur 6-1, 6-4 on Friday afternoon. She’ll play Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 32 seed, in the next round
Spaniard Paula Badosa won against Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the No 4 seed, 6-1, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday afternoon.
Badosa, ranked No 35, will face Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 32 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Rome tournament, the Spaniard edged out German qualifier Anna-Lena Friedsam (4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (2)).
Rome WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Danka Kovinic
- Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
- Marta Kostyuk beat Claire Liu: 6-0, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-0, 6-0
- Donna Vekic (21) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Karolina Muchova beat Martina Trevisan (18): 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Julia Grabher beat Jil Teichmann (26): 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3
- Maria Sakkari (9) beat Barbora Strycova: 6-1, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova (16) beat Anett Kontaveit: 6-3, 6-3
- Caroline Garcia (5) beat Ana Bogdan: 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
- Sofia Kenin beat Aryna Sabalenka (2): 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Camila Osorio (Q) beat Petra Martic (29): 6-4, 6-2
- Anastasia Potapova (23) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 6-4
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Jessica Pegula (3): 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
- Qinwen Zheng (22) beat Alize Cornet: 6-3, 7-6 (2)
- Anhelina Kalinina (30) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-2, 6-2
- Madison Keys (19) beat Magdalena Frech (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- 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 (14) 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
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