Italian Open: Bondar reaches first round
Anna Bondar won against Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (5), 6-2 on Thursday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Alize Cornet and Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 22 seed, in the next round
Hungarian qualifier Anna Bondar moved into the first round of the Italian Open by winning against Czech Karolina Pliskova, the No 13 seed, 7-6 (5), 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday.
Bondar, ranked No 93, will face the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Alize Cornet and Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 22 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the Hungarian beat German Tatjana Maria (6-4, 6-1).
Rome WTA 1000, other 64 results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Jil Teichmann vs. Julia Grabher
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Danka Kovinic
- Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Martina Trevisan vs. Karolina Muchova
- Claire Liu vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Ons Jabeur vs. Paula Badosa
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
- Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Maria Sakkari vs. Barbora Strycova
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Donna Vekic vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
- Iga Swiatek vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Sofia Kenin vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Caroline Garcia vs. Ana Bogdan
- Taylor Townsend vs. Jessica Pegula
- Camila Osorio vs. Petra Martic
- Alize Cornet vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Anna Blinkova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Madison Keys
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Coco Gauff vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Magda Linette vs. Linda Noskova
- Catherine McNally vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Sloane Stephens: thursday
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Xiyu Wang: thursday
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Veronika Kudermetova: thursday
