Italian Open: Gauff races into third round

American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, beat Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-0, 6-1 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday afternoon.

Gauff, ranked No 5, will face the winner of the match between American Caty McNally and Czech Marie Bouzkova, the No 27 seed, next.

Putintseva, ranked No 51, won against Bulgarian qualifier Viktoriya Tomova (6-7 (5), 7-6 (3), 6-0) in the previous round in Rome.

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
• Catherine McNally vs. Marie Bouzkova: thursday
• Magda Linette vs. Linda Noskova: thursday
• Victoria Azarenka (14) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-4, 6-3
• Xiyu Wang beat Irina-Camelia Begu (31): 6-4, 7-5
• Anna Bondar (Q) beat Karolina Pliskova (13): 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Veronika Kudermetova (11) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 7-5, 6-2