Italian Open: Krejcikova into third round as Kovinic retires injured late in second set

Czech Barbora Krejcikova, the No 10 seed, advanced to the third round of the Italian Open when Montenegrin Danka Kovinic retired on Friday at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Krejcikova, ranked No 13, led 6-2, 4-1 when Kovinic, ranked No 69, pulled out at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday afternoon.

The Czech will play the winner of the match between Romanian Sorana Cirstea and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 20 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, the Montenegrin defeated Italian Lucia Bronzetti (6-3, 3-6, 6-3).

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
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
• Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko: friday
• Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya: 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