Italian Open: Kalinina stuns Kenin, moves into fourth round

Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, the No 30 seed, beat American Sofia Kenin 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the fourth round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Saturday.

Kalinina, ranked No 47, will face the winner of the match between Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 14 seed, and American Madison Keys, the No 19 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, the Ukrainian won against Russian Anna Blinkova (6-2, 6-2).

Kenin, ranked No 134, edged out Spaniard Cristina Bucsa (6-3, 6-7 (8), 7-5) and defeated Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed (7-6 (4), 6-2) in the previous rounds of the Rome tournament.

It will be a huge disappointment for Kenin not to have backed up her impressive win over Aryna Sabalenka in the previous round.

Rome WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):

• Julia Grabher vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Karolina Muchova vs. Camila Giorgi
• Paula Badosa vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Elena Rybakina
• Maria Sakkari vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Donna Vekic vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Iga Swiatek vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Coco Gauff vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Madison Keys
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Magda Linette vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: saturday
• Anna Bondar vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Xiyu Wang vs. Taylor Townsend: saturday
• Caroline Garcia vs. Camila Osorio: saturday