Italian Open: Mboko sweeps past wildcard Zucchini to reach second round

Canadian qualifier Victoria Mboko reached the second round of the Italian Open by winning against Italian wildcard Arianna Zucchini 6-2, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Mboko, ranked No 156, will play No 4 seed Coco Gauff next.

Rome WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, EUR 6.009.593, most recent results first):

• Antonia Ruzic vs. Tyra Caterina Grant
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Maya Joint vs. Emma Raducanu
• Alexandra Eala vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Katie Volynets vs. Arantxa Rus
• Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Eva Lys
• Emiliana Arango vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Maria Sakkari vs. Belinda Bencic
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Federica Urgesi
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Katie Boulter
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Anna Blinkova
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Olga Danilovic
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Anna Bondar: wednesday
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elina Avanesyan: wednesday
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Polina Kudermetova: wednesday
• Varvara Gracheva beat Ajla Tomljanovic (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Caroline Dolehide beat Olivia Gadecki (LL): 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-2
• Kamilla Rakhimova (LL) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2
• Victoria Azarenka beat Camila Osorio: 6-2, 6-3
• Naomi Osaka beat Sara Errani (WC): 6-2, 6-3
• Marie Bouzkova beat Mayar Sherif: 6-2, 7-5
• Sonay Kartal beat Kimberly Birrell: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Peyton Stearns beat Nuria Brancaccio (WC): 6-3, 6-2
• Rebecca Sramkova beat McCartney Kessler: 6-3, 6-3
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Anastasija Sevastova: 6-3, 6-4
• Suzan Lamens beat Renata Zarazua: 6-1, 1-6, 6-1
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Alycia Parks: 6-2, 6-0
• Petra Kvitova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-5, 6-1
• Lulu Sun beat Giorgia Pedone (WC): 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Ann Li: 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3)