Italian Open: Samsonova books spot in third round
Liudmila Samsonova defeated Anett Kontaveit 6-3, 6-3 on Friday and will play the winner of the match between Croat Donna Vekic, the No 21 seed, and Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the next round
Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 16 seed, defeated Estonian Anett Kontaveit 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.
Samsonova, ranked No 16, will play the winner of the match between Croat Donna Vekic, the No 21 seed, and Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich next.
In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Kontaveit, ranked No 82, won against American Alycia Parks (6-1, 6-1).
Rome WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Danka Kovinic
- Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
- Ons Jabeur vs. Paula Badosa
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Iga Swiatek vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Martina Trevisan vs. Karolina Muchova
- Claire Liu vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Donna Vekic vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Jil Teichmann vs. Julia Grabher: friday
- Maria Sakkari (9) beat Barbora Strycova: 6-1, 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
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