Italian Open: Keys reaches third round

American Madison Keys, the No 5 seed, beat Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva 7-6 (4), 6-1 to move into the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.

Keys, ranked No 6, will face American Peyton Stearns next.

Gracheva, ranked No 65, won against Australian qualifier Ajla Tomljanovic (6-3, 6-4) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.

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

• Coco Gauff vs. Victoria Mboko
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Donna Vekic
• Elena Rybakina vs. Eva Lys
• Emma Navarro vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Daria Kasatkina

• Leylah Fernandez vs. Antonia Ruzic
• Emiliana Arango vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Emma Raducanu
• Olga Danilovic vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Linda Noskova vs. Sonay Kartal
• Katie Volynets vs. Clara Tauson
• Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Maria Sakkari vs. Magda Linette
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Laura Siegemund
• Marie Bouzkova beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (18): 6-0, 6-3
• Elina Svitolina (16) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-4, 6-2
• Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Liudmila Samsonova (19): 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
• Danielle Collins (29) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini (6) beat Lulu Sun: 6-4, 6-3
• Iga Swiatek (2) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto (WC): 6-1, 6-0
• Peyton Stearns beat Anna Kalinskaya (28): 6-2, 6-3
• Elise Mertens (25) beat Suzan Lamens: 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Diana Shnaider (13) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-0, 6-0
• Naomi Osaka beat Viktorija Golubic (LL): 2-6, 7-5, 6-1
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Yulia Putintseva (23): 7-6 (2), 7-5
• Petra Kvitova vs. Ons Jabeur