Italian Open: Ostapenko makes third round

Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 17 seed, defeated Slovak Rebecca Sramkova 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 to move into the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday.

Ostapenko, ranked No 18, will play the winner of the match between Italian Lucia Bronzetti and No 12 seed Karolina Muchova next.

Sramkova, ranked No 41, won against American McCartney Kessler (6-3, 6-3) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.

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

• Emiliana Arango vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Linda Noskova vs. Sonay Kartal
• Katie Volynets vs. Clara Tauson
• Emma Navarro vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Emma Raducanu
• Maria Sakkari vs. Magda Linette

• Coco Gauff vs. Victoria Mboko
• Olga Danilovic vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Donna Vekic
• Elena Rybakina vs. Eva Lys
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Antonia Ruzic
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Karolina Muchova
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Madison Keys vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jessica Pegula
• Elina Svitolina vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Danielle Collins vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Lulu Sun
• Iga Swiatek (2) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto (WC): 6-1, 6-0
• Peyton Stearns beat Anna Kalinskaya (28): 6-2, 6-3
• Elise Mertens vs. Suzan Lamens: thursday
• Diana Shnaider (13) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-0, 6-0
• Naomi Osaka beat Viktorija Golubic (LL): 2-6, 7-5, 6-1
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Yulia Putintseva (23): 7-6 (2), 7-5
• Petra Kvitova vs. Ons Jabeur