Italian Open: Muchova knocks out home favourite Giorgi to move into fourth round

Czech Karolina Muchova moved into the fourth round of the Italian Open by defeating Italian Camila Giorgi 7-6 (4), 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Sunday.

Muchova, ranked No 52, will face the winner of the match between Spaniard Paula Badosa and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 32 seed, next.

In the previous rounds of the Rome tournament, the Czech won against Russian lucky loser Kamilla Rakhimova (6-4, 7-5) and edged out Italian Martina Trevisan, the No 18 seed (3-6, 6-3, 7-5).

Giorgi, ranked No 37, beat Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus (4-6, 6-2, 6-3) and Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 15 seed (6-4, 6-2) earlier in the tournament.

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

• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Elena Rybakina
• Donna Vekic vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Madison Keys
• Paula Badosa vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Coco Gauff vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Iga Swiatek vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Julia Grabher vs. Daria Kasatkina: sunday
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Maria Sakkari (9): 7-5, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng (22) beat Anna Bondar (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Veronika Kudermetova (11) beat Anastasia Potapova (23): 7-5, 3-6, 6-1
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Magda Linette (17): 7-5, 6-4
• Xiyu Wang beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 6-2, 0-6, 7-5
• Anhelina Kalinina (30) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-4, 6-2
• Camila Osorio (Q) beat Caroline Garcia (5): 6-4, 6-4