Italian Open: Kasatkina cruises into third round
Daria Kasatkina defeated Lisa Pigato 6-1, 6-2 on Friday evening. She’ll play Austrian Julia Grabher in the next round
Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, beat Italian wildcard Lisa Pigato 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday evening.
Kasatkina, ranked No 9, will play Austrian Julia Grabher next.
In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Pigato, ranked No 483, won against wildcard Diletta Cherubini (7-5, 2-6, 6-3).
Rome WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera: friday
- Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova: friday
- Barbora Krejcikova (10) beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 4-1 ret.
- Jelena Ostapenko (20) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Elise Mertens (25): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Paula Badosa beat Ons Jabeur (4): 6-1, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk (32) beat Claire Liu: 6-0, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-0, 6-0
- Donna Vekic (21) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Karolina Muchova beat Martina Trevisan (18): 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
- 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 (16) 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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