Italian Open: Kartal advances to second round

Sonay Kartal edged out Australian Kimberly Birrell 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Roma on Tuesday.

Kartal, ranked No 56, will play No 30 seed Linda Noskova next.

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

• Antonia Ruzic vs. Tyra Caterina Grant
• Alexandra Eala vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Maya Joint vs. Emma Raducanu
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Emiliana Arango vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Olga Danilovic
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Katie Boulter
• Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Anna Bondar

• Maria Sakkari vs. Belinda Bencic
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Federica Urgesi
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Eva Lys
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Arianna Zucchini vs. Victoria Mboko
• Sara Errani vs. Naomi Osaka
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Camila Osorio
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Anna Blinkova
• Katie Volynets vs. Arantxa Rus
• Marie Bouzkova beat Mayar Sherif: 6-2, 7-5
• Peyton Stearns beat Nuria Brancaccio (WC): 6-3, 6-2
• Rebecca Sramkova beat McCartney Kessler: 6-3, 6-3
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Anastasija Sevastova: 6-3, 6-4
• Suzan Lamens beat Renata Zarazua: 6-1, 1-6, 6-1
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Alycia Parks: 6-2, 6-0
• Petra Kvitova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-5, 6-1
• Lulu Sun beat Giorgia Pedone (WC): 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Ann Li: 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3)