Italian Open: Stearns through to second round

American Peyton Stearns won against Italian wildcard Nuria Brancaccio 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Roma on Tuesday.

Stearns, ranked No 42, will play No 28 seed Anna Kalinskaya next.

Roma WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 6.009.593, most recent results first):

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Sara Errani vs. Naomi Osaka
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Olga Danilovic
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Camila Osorio
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Federica Urgesi
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Eva Lys
• Alexandra Eala vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Katie Boulter
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Mayar Sherif: tuesday
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Sonay Kartal: tuesday
• Rebecca Sramkova beat McCartney Kessler: 6-3, 6-3
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Anastasija Sevastova: 6-3, 6-4
• Suzan Lamens beat Renata Zarazua: 6-1, 1-6, 6-1
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Alycia Parks: 6-2, 6-0
• Petra Kvitova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-5, 6-1
• Lulu Sun beat Giorgia Pedone (WC): 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Ann Li: 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3)