Kostyuk beats Kasatkina in Rome, pair shake hands
Marta Kostyuk beat Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 6-2 on Friday afternoon and will play the winner of the match between Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 24 seed, and Croat qualifier Antonia Ruzic in the next round
Marta Kostyuk, Madrid Open, 2025 © Zuma / Psnewz
Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk beat Australian Daria Kasatkina, the No 14 seed, 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico on Friday.
Kostyuk, ranked No 27, will play the winner of the match between Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 24 seed, and Croat qualifier Antonia Ruzic next.
The match was notable for a warm handshake between the pair. Kostyuk, like all Ukrainian players, has refused to shake the hands of any Russian player but with Kasatkina having always been vocal in her opposition to the war and having recently changed nationality to Australian, she was happy to shake hands at the net.
The 22-year-old Ukrainian won against Filipino Alexandra Eala (6-0, 6-1) ahead of her victory.
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
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Antonia Ruzic: friday
- Emma Navarro vs. Kamilla Rakhimova: friday
- Emma Raducanu beat Jil Teichmann (LL): 6-2, 6-2
- Mirra Andreeva (7) beat Emiliana Arango (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Amanda Anisimova (15): 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Linda Noskova (30) beat Sonay Kartal: 6-4, 6-2
- Qinwen Zheng (8) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-1, 6-4
- Magdalena Frech (26) beat Victoria Azarenka: 7-5, 6-4
- Clara Tauson (22) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 7-5, 4-1 ret.
- 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
