Italian Open: Azarenka first qualified of the day
Victoria Azarenka defeated Camila Osorio 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday. She’ll play No 26 seed Magdalena Frech in the next round
Victoria Azarenka in Rome (Inside/Panoramic)
Belarusian and former world Nà.1 Victoria Azarenka advanced to the second round of the Italian Open by winning against Colombian Camila Osorio 6-2, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Wednesday. Azarenka, ranked No 54, will face No 26 seed Magdalena Frech next.
Roma WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 6.009.593, most recent results first):
- Antonia Ruzic vs. Tyra Caterina Grant
- Alexandra Eala vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Katie Volynets vs. Arantxa Rus
- Maya Joint vs. Emma Raducanu
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Emiliana Arango vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Olga Danilovic
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Katie Boulter
- Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Anna Blinkova
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Anna Bondar
- Maria Sakkari vs. Belinda Bencic
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Federica Urgesi
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Eva Lys
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Arianna Zucchini vs. Victoria Mboko
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Olivia Gadecki: wednesday
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Xinyu Wang: wednesday
- Sara Errani vs. Naomi Osaka: wednesday
- Marie Bouzkova beat Mayar Sherif: 6-2, 7-5
- Sonay Kartal beat Kimberly Birrell: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Peyton Stearns beat Nuria Brancaccio (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- Rebecca Sramkova beat McCartney Kessler: 6-3, 6-3
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Anastasija Sevastova: 6-3, 6-4
- Suzan Lamens beat Renata Zarazua: 6-1, 1-6, 6-1
- Jaqueline Cristian beat Alycia Parks: 6-2, 6-0
- Petra Kvitova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-5, 6-1
- Lulu Sun beat Giorgia Pedone (WC): 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Ann Li: 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3)
