Italian Open: Sakkari into second round as Bencic retires injured

Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari advanced to the second round of the Italian Open when Swiss Belinda Bencic retired on Wednesday evening at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Sakkari, ranked No 81, led 6-2 when Bencic, ranked No 39, pulled out at the Foro Italico in Roma on Wednesday evening.

The Greek will play No 32 seed Magda Linette next.

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

• Katie Volynets vs. Arantxa Rus
• Maya Joint vs. Emma Raducanu
• Alexandra Eala vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Olga Danilovic
• Antonia Ruzic vs. Tyra Caterina Grant
• Emiliana Arango vs. Viktoriya Tomova: wednesday
• Eva Lys beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-1, 6-0
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Katie Boulter: wednesday
• Veronika Kudermetova beat Lucrezia Stefanini (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Bianca Andreescu beat Federica Urgesi (WC): 6-0, 6-3
• Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Anna Blinkova (Q): 7-6 (7), 6-4
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Anna Bondar (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto (WC) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Polina Kudermetova: 6-7 (10), 6-4, 6-2
• Victoria Mboko (Q) beat Arianna Zucchini (WC): 6-2, 6-3
• 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)