Italian Open: Fernandez reaches third round

Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 24 seed, won against Croat qualifier Antonia Ruzic 6-4, 6-0 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico on Friday evening.

Fernandez, ranked No 26, will play Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Ruzic, ranked No 117, edged out Italian wildcard Tyra Caterina Grant (3-6, 6-3, 7-5).

Roma WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 6.009.593, most recent results first):

• Bianca Andreescu vs. Donna Vekic
• Coco Gauff vs. Victoria Mboko
• Elena Rybakina vs. Eva Lys
• 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