Italian Open: Vekic through to third round
Donna Vekic beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Friday and will face Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 16 seed, in the next round
Croat Donna Vekic, the No 21 seed, beat Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to move into the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.
Vekic, ranked No 24, will play Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 16 seed, next.
Sasnovich, ranked No 44, won against Canadian Leylah Fernandez (7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.
Rome WTA 1000, other 64 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
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Danka Kovinic
- Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
- Ons Jabeur vs. Paula Badosa: friday
- Claire Liu vs. Marta Kostyuk: friday
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-0, 6-0
- Martina Trevisan vs. Karolina Muchova: friday
- Julia Grabher beat Jil Teichmann (26): 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3
- Maria Sakkari (9) beat Barbora Strycova: 6-1, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova beat Anett Kontaveit: 6-3, 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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