Italian Open: Kalinskaya ousts Mertens in second round

Russian Anna Kalinskaya moved into the first round of the Italian Open by winning against Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 25 seed, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday afternoon.

Kalinskaya, ranked No 57, will play the winner of the match between Italian Jasmine Paolini and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 7 seed, next.

The Russian beat Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska (6-4, 6-2) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.

Rome WTA 1000, other 64 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: friday
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
• Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova: friday
• Barbora Krejcikova (10) beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 4-1 ret.
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko: friday
• Paula Badosa beat Ons Jabeur (4): 6-1, 6-4
• Marta Kostyuk (32) beat Claire Liu: 6-0, 6-4
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-0, 6-0
• Donna Vekic (21) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Karolina Muchova beat Martina Trevisan (18): 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
• Julia Grabher beat Jil Teichmann (26): 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3
• Maria Sakkari (9) beat Barbora Strycova: 6-1, 6-3
• Liudmila Samsonova (16) beat Anett Kontaveit: 6-3, 6-3
• Caroline Garcia (5) beat Ana Bogdan: 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
• Sofia Kenin beat Aryna Sabalenka (2): 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Camila Osorio (Q) beat Petra Martic (29): 6-4, 6-2
• Anastasia Potapova (23) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 6-4
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Jessica Pegula (3): 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng (22) beat Alize Cornet: 6-3, 7-6 (2)
• Anhelina Kalinina (30) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-2, 6-2
• 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