Italian Open: Sabalenka cruises into third round, Kenin next
Aryna Sabalenka won against Anastasia Potapova 6-2, 6-2 on Friday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and American Sofia Kenin, the No 31 seed, in the next round
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Top seed Aryna Sabalenka cruised into the third round of the Italian Open on Friday as she defeated Russian Anastasia Potapova 6-2, 6-2 at the Foro Italico.
The world No 1 will play American Sofia Kenin, the No 31 seed, next. Kenin beat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 6-0 almost at the same moment.
“I had to figure out the court, and how I can use my game in the best way on this surface,” Sabalenka said, quoted by the WTA website. “This match was more like me trying to adjust to the surface.”
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: friday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sofia Kenin: friday
- Laura Siegemund (LL) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-2
- Marie Bouzkova beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (18): 6-0, 6-3
- Madison Keys (5) beat Varvara Gracheva: 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Elina Svitolina (16) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-4, 6-2
- 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 (25) 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
