Italian Open: Putintseva upsets Stephens to reach third round

Kazakh Yulia Putintseva won against American Sloane Stephens, the No 31 seed, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the 32 of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.

Putintseva, ranked No 41, will play the winner of the match between Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, and American qualifier Bernarda Pera next.

The Kazakh defeated Italian wildcard Martina Trevisan (6-3, 6-4) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.

Rome WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):

• Mayar Sherif vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Katie Volynets vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Katie Boulter
• Elina Svitolina vs. Sara Errani
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Caroline Garcia
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Laura Siegemund
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Magda Linette
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Ons Jabeur vs. Sofia Kenin
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Elena Rybakina
• Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Elise Mertens vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Danielle Collins vs. Anna Blinkova
• Maria Sakkari vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Emma Navarro vs. Paula Badosa: thursday
• Iga Swiatek vs. Bernarda Pera: thursday
• Ana Bogdan vs. Marketa Vondrousova: thursday
• Sorana Cirstea (28) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q): 7-5, 6-0
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Xinyu Wang: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Madison Keys (18) beat Camila Osorio: 6-0, 4-6, 6-3
• Jaqueline Cristian (LL) beat Elina Avanesyan: 5-7, 6-2, 6-2
• Naomi Osaka beat Marta Kostyuk (19): 6-3, 6-2
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (14): 6-0, 6-1
• Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-2, 6-0
• Linda Noskova (29) beat Lucrezia Stefanini (WC): 6-3, 7-6 (1)
• Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Tatjana Maria: 7-5, 6-1
• Diana Shnaider beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 6-1, 6-3
• Angelique Kerber beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-3, 6-0