Italian Open: Tauson makes third round
Clara Tauson benefited from the abandonment of Katie Volynets (7-5, 4-1) on Friday. She’ll play the winner of the match between American Emma Navarro, the No 10 seed, and Russian lucky loser Kamilla Rakhimova in the next round
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Dane Clara Tauson, the No 22 seed, reached the third round of the Italian Open when American qualifier Katie Volynets retired on Friday at the Foro Italico in Roma.
Tauson, ranked No 23, led 7-5, 4-1 when Volynets, ranked No 66, pulled out at the Foro Italico in Roma on Friday.
The 22-year-old Dane will face the winner of the match between American Emma Navarro, the No 10 seed, and Russian lucky loser Kamilla Rakhimova next.
In the previous round of the Rome tournament, the American won against Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus (6-3, 6-3).
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
- Jil Teichmann vs. Emma Raducanu
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Linda Noskova vs. Sonay Kartal: friday
- Olga Danilovic vs. Qinwen Zheng: friday
- Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka: friday
- Magda Linette (32) beat Maria Sakkari (Q): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Sofia Kenin (31) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-0
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-2, 6-2
- 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
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