Italian Open: Kenin sets up clash with Sabalenka in round three

American Sofia Kenin, the No 31 seed, beat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 6-0 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico on Friday.

Kenin, ranked No 31, will play Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the top seed, next.

Pavlyuchenkova, ranked No 52, won against Katie Boulter (6-3, 6-3) 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: friday
• Aryna Sabalenka beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-2, 6-2
• Laura Siegemund (LL) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (18): 6-0, 6-3
• Madison Keys (5) beat Varvara Gracheva: 7-6 (4), 6-1
• 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