Italian Open: Shnaider into last 16
Diana Shnaider won against Jaqueline Cristian 6-3, 6-3 on Saturday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 25 seed, and American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, in the next round
Diana Shnaider in Madrid (Zuma/PSNewz)
Russian Diana Shnaider, the No 13 seed, reached the last 16 of the Italian Open by winning against Romanian Jaqueline Cristian 6-3, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Saturday.
Shnaider, ranked No 11, will play the winner of the match between Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 25 seed, and American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, next.
The 21-year-old Russian defeated American Caroline Dolehide (6-0, 6-0) ahead of her victory.
In the previous rounds of the Rome tournament, Cristian, ranked No 74, beat American Alycia Parks (6-2, 6-0) and Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 23 seed (7-6 (2), 7-5).
Roma WTA 1000, other third-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 6.009.593, most recent results first):
- Linda Noskova vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Emma Navarro vs. Clara Tauson
- Emma Raducanu vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Coco Gauff vs. Magda Linette
- Magdalena Frech vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Elena Rybakina vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Sofia Kenin
- Elise Mertens vs. Jessica Pegula
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Naomi Osaka
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Laura Siegemund
- Elina Svitolina vs. Hailey Baptiste
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Ons Jabeur
- Danielle Collins vs. Iga Swiatek: saturday
- Peyton Stearns beat Madison Keys (5): 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3)
