Italian Open: Kalinina cruises into third round

Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, the No 30 seed, won against Russian Anna Blinkova 6-2, 6-2 to reach the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday afternoon.

Kalinina, ranked No 47, will face the winner of the match between American Sofia Kenin and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Blinkova, ranked No 73, beat Egyptian Mayar Sherif (2-6, 6-2, 6-3).

Rome WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):

• Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Danka Kovinic
• Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
• Ons Jabeur vs. Paula Badosa
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Iga Swiatek vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Martina Trevisan vs. Karolina Muchova
• Claire Liu vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Donna Vekic vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Jil Teichmann vs. Julia Grabher
• Maria Sakkari vs. Barbora Strycova
• Anett Kontaveit vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Sofia Kenin vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Caroline Garcia vs. Ana Bogdan
• Alize Cornet vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Camila Osorio vs. Petra Martic
• Taylor Townsend vs. Jessica Pegula
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Madison Keys (19) beat Magdalena Frech (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova (27) beat Catherine McNally: 6-4, 6-3
• Magda Linette (17) beat Linda Noskova: 7-6 (4), 6-1
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-0, 6-1
• 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