Italian Open: Azarenka first qualified of the day
Victoria Azarenka defeated Camila Osorio 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday. She’ll play No 26 seed Magdalena Frech in the next round

Belarusian and former world Nà.1 Victoria Azarenka advanced to the second round of the Italian Open by winning against Colombian Camila Osorio 6-2, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Wednesday. Azarenka, ranked No 54, will face No 26 seed Magdalena Frech next.
Roma WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 6.009.593, most recent results first):
- Antonia Ruzic vs. Tyra Caterina Grant
- Alexandra Eala vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Katie Volynets vs. Arantxa Rus
- Maya Joint vs. Emma Raducanu
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Emiliana Arango vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Olga Danilovic
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Katie Boulter
- Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Anna Blinkova
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Anna Bondar
- Maria Sakkari vs. Belinda Bencic
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Federica Urgesi
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Eva Lys
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Arianna Zucchini vs. Victoria Mboko
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Olivia Gadecki: wednesday
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Xinyu Wang: wednesday
- Sara Errani vs. Naomi Osaka: wednesday
- Marie Bouzkova beat Mayar Sherif: 6-2, 7-5
- Sonay Kartal beat Kimberly Birrell: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Peyton Stearns beat Nuria Brancaccio (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- 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)