Ukraine’s Tsurenko earns clash with top seed Swiatek in Rome
Lesia Tsurenko beat Bernarda Pera 6-4, 6-4 on Friday evening. She’ll face Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, in the next round
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Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko won against American Bernarda Pera, the No 28 seed, 6-4, 6-4 to move into the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday evening.
Tsurenko, ranked No 68, will play Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, next.
The 33-year-old Ukrainian defeated Elina Svitolina (6-4, 6-3) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.
Rome WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
- Daria Kasatkina (8) beat Lisa Pigato (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Camila Giorgi beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (15): 6-4, 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (10) beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 4-1 ret.
- Jelena Ostapenko (20) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Elise Mertens (25): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Paula Badosa beat Ons Jabeur (4): 6-1, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk (32) beat Claire Liu: 6-0, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek 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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