Italian Open: Andreescu books spot in third round
Bianca Andreescu beat Donna Vekic 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 on Friday evening and will play Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 11 seed, in the next round
Bianca Andreescu at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Canadian Bianca Andreescu stepped up a gear in her comeback from injury as she beat Croatia’s Donna Vekic, the No 20 seed, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico on Friday evening.
Andreescu, ranked No 121, will face Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 11 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the Canadian defeated Italian wildcard Federica Urgesi (6-0, 6-3).
Roma WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 6.009.593, most recent results first):
- Coco Gauff (4) beat Victoria Mboko (Q): 3-6, 6-2, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina beat Eva Lys: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez (24) beat Antonia Ruzic (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Emma Navarro (10) beat Kamilla Rakhimova (LL): 6-1, 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk beat Daria Kasatkina (14): 6-4, 6-2
- Emma Raducanu beat Jil Teichmann (LL): 6-2, 6-2
- Mirra Andreeva (7) beat Emiliana Arango (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Amanda Anisimova (15): 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Linda Noskova (30) beat Sonay Kartal: 6-4, 6-2
- Qinwen Zheng (8) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-1, 6-4
- Magdalena Frech (26) beat Victoria Azarenka: 7-5, 6-4
- Clara Tauson (22) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 7-5, 4-1 ret.
- Magda Linette (32) beat Maria Sakkari (Q): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Sofia Kenin (31) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-0
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) 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
