Italian Open: Mboko sweeps past wildcard Zucchini to reach second round
Victoria Mboko defeated Arianna Zucchini 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday afternoon and will face No 4 seed Coco Gauff in the next round
Canadian qualifier Victoria Mboko reached the second round of the Italian Open by winning against Italian wildcard Arianna Zucchini 6-2, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Mboko, ranked No 156, will play No 4 seed Coco Gauff next.
Rome WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 6.009.593, most recent results first):
- Antonia Ruzic vs. Tyra Caterina Grant
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Maya Joint vs. Emma Raducanu
- Alexandra Eala vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Katie Volynets vs. Arantxa Rus
- Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Eva Lys
- Emiliana Arango vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Maria Sakkari vs. Belinda Bencic
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Federica Urgesi
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Katie Boulter
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Anna Blinkova
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Olga Danilovic
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Anna Bondar: wednesday
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elina Avanesyan: wednesday
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Polina Kudermetova: wednesday
- Varvara Gracheva beat Ajla Tomljanovic (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Caroline Dolehide beat Olivia Gadecki (LL): 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-2
- Kamilla Rakhimova (LL) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2
- Victoria Azarenka beat Camila Osorio: 6-2, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka beat Sara Errani (WC): 6-2, 6-3
- 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)
