US Open: Paolini to face former Wimbledon champ Vondrousova in third round
The seventh-seeded Italian defeated Iva Jovic in straight sets in the second round
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Italian Jasmine Paolini, the No 7 seed, won against American teen Iva Jovic 6-3, 6-3 to reach the third round of the US Open on Wednesday.
Paolini, ranked No 8, will play former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova next at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
Ahead of her win today, the Italian, a two-time Grand Slam runner-up, defeated Australian qualifier Destanee Aiava (6-2, 7-6 (4)).
Jovic, ranked No 76, beat Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich (7-6 (6), 6-3) in the first round of the tournament.
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):
- Mirra Andreeva (5) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-1, 6-3
- Elise Mertens (19) beat Lulu Sun: 6-2, 6-3
- Priscilla Hon (Q) beat Liudmila Samsonova (17): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Taylor Townsend beat Jelena Ostapenko (25): 7-5, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina (9) beat Tereza Valentova (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (7)
- Barbora Krejcikova beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 6-2
- Jessica Pegula (4) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-1, 6-3
- Cristina Bucsa beat Alexandra Eala: 6-4, 6-3
- Victoria Azarenka beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-3
- Emma Navarro (10) beat Catherine McNally (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Emma Raducanu beat Janice Tjen (Q): 6-2, 6-1
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Maya Joint
- Donna Vekic vs. Coco Gauff
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Renata Zarazua vs. Diane Parry
- Anastasia Zakharova vs. Laura Siegemund
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Naomi Osaka
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Karolina Muchova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Peyton Stearns
- Zeynep Sonmez vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Suzan Lamens vs. Iga Swiatek
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Bondar
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Linda Noskova vs. Eva Lys
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Ann Li vs. Belinda Bencic
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Leylah Fernandez
- McCartney Kessler vs. Marketa Vondrousova
