Italian Open: Cristian advances to third round

Romanian Jaqueline Cristian moved into the third round of the Italian Open by winning against Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 23 seed, 7-6 (2), 7-5 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday.

Cristian, ranked No 74, will face the winner of the match between Russian Diana Shnaider, the No 13 seed, and American Caroline Dolehide next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, the Romanian defeated American Alycia Parks (6-2, 6-0).

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

• Emiliana Arango vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Linda Noskova vs. Sonay Kartal
• Katie Volynets vs. Clara Tauson
• Emma Navarro vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Emma Raducanu
• Maria Sakkari vs. Magda Linette
• Coco Gauff vs. Victoria Mboko
• Olga Danilovic vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Donna Vekic
• Elena Rybakina vs. Eva Lys
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Antonia Ruzic
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Karolina Muchova
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Madison Keys vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jessica Pegula
• Elina Svitolina vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Lulu Sun
• Danielle Collins vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Iga Swiatek
• Peyton Stearns vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Elise Mertens vs. Suzan Lamens: thursday
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Rebecca Sramkova: thursday
• Diana Shnaider vs. Caroline Dolehide: thursday
• Naomi Osaka beat Viktorija Golubic (LL): 2-6, 7-5, 6-1
• Petra Kvitova vs. Ons Jabeur