Italian Open: Pegula moves into third round

Third seed Jessica Pegula reached the third round of the Italian Open by defeating Ashlyn Krueger 6-4, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.

Pegula, ranked No 4, will play Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 25 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Krueger, ranked No 37, won against Hungarian qualifier Anna Bondar (4-6, 6-2, 6-1).

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

• Coco Gauff vs. Victoria Mboko
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Donna Vekic
• Elena Rybakina vs. Eva Lys
• Emma Navarro vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Antonia Ruzic
• Emiliana Arango vs. Mirra Andreeva

• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Emma Raducanu
• Olga Danilovic vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Linda Noskova vs. Sonay Kartal
• Katie Volynets vs. Clara Tauson
• Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Maria Sakkari vs. Magda Linette
• 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: thursday
• Elina Svitolina vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: thursday
• Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Liudmila Samsonova (19): 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
• Danielle Collins (29) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini (6) beat Lulu Sun: 6-4, 6-3
• Iga Swiatek (2) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto (WC): 6-1, 6-0
• Peyton Stearns beat Anna Kalinskaya (28): 6-2, 6-3
• Elise Mertens beat Suzan Lamens: 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
• 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