Italian Open: Azarenka first qualified of the day

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)