Italian Open: Siniakova beats wildcard Brancaccio to make second round

Katerina Siniakova beat Italian wildcard Nuria Brancaccio 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Siniakova, ranked No 36, will face No 27 seed Elise Mertens next.

Rome WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):

• Sara Errani vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Federica Di Sarra vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Xiyu Wang
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Giorgia Pedone
• Daria Saville vs. Clara Tauson
• Yafan Wang vs. Katie Volynets
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Renata Zarazua vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Sofia Kenin vs. Lucia Bronzetti: wednesday
• Rebeka Masarova vs. Irina-Camelia Begu: wednesday
• Mayar Sherif beat Petra Martic: 6-2, 6-2
• Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Laura Siegemund: wednesday
• Magda Linette beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-2
• Naomi Osaka beat Clara Burel: 7-6 (2), 6-1
• Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Caroline Dolehide: 7-6 (6), 6-3
• Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Taylor Townsend: 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q) beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Anna Blinkova beat Diane Parry: 6-2, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Donna Vekic: 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Tatjana Maria beat Linda Fruhvirtova (Q): 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-2
• Elina Avanesyan beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-7 (3), 6-0, 7-5
• Diana Shnaider beat Greet Minnen: 6-2, 6-3
• Magdalena Frech beat Ashlyn Krueger: 7-6 (2), 6-3
• Angelique Kerber beat Lauren Davis: 6-1, 6-0
• Lucrezia Stefanini (WC) beat Vittoria Paganetti (WC): 7-5, 6-3
• Ana Bogdan beat Leylah Fernandez: 6-4, 6-1
• Xinyu Wang beat Yue Yuan: 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Camila Osorio beat Arantxa Rus: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Martina Trevisan (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Paula Badosa beat Mirra Andreeva: 6-2, 6-3
• Shelby Rogers beat Lisa Pigato (WC): 6-1, 6-0