Italian Open: Collins into third round as Blinkova quits
Danielle Collins benefited from the abandonment of Anna Blinkova (6-4, 0-0) on Friday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 22 seed, in the next round
American Danielle Collins, the No 13 seed, advanced to the 32 of the Italian Open when Russian Anna Blinkova retired on Friday at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Collins, ranked No 15, led 6-4, 0-0 when Blinkova, ranked No 46, pulled out at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.
The American will face the winner of the match between Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 22 seed, next.
The Russian beat Frenchwoman Diane Parry (6-2, 6-3) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.
Roma WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):
- Mayar Sherif vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Katie Volynets vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Katie Boulter
- Elina Svitolina vs. Sara Errani
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Caroline Garcia
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Laura Siegemund
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Magda Linette
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Ons Jabeur vs. Sofia Kenin
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Oceane Dodin
- Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Maria Sakkari vs. Varvara Gracheva: friday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo: friday
- Elise Mertens vs. Katerina Siniakova: friday
- Paula Badosa beat Emma Navarro (21): 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-0, 6-2
- Yulia Putintseva beat Sloane Stephens (31): 6-3, 6-2
- Marketa Vondrousova (6) beat Ana Bogdan: 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
- Sorana Cirstea (28) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q): 7-5, 6-0
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Xinyu Wang: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Madison Keys (18) beat Camila Osorio: 6-0, 4-6, 6-3
- Jaqueline Cristian (LL) beat Elina Avanesyan: 5-7, 6-2, 6-2
- Naomi Osaka beat Marta Kostyuk (19): 6-3, 6-2
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (14): 6-0, 6-1
- Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-2, 6-0
- Linda Noskova (29) beat Lucrezia Stefanini (WC): 6-3, 7-6 (1)
- Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Tatjana Maria: 7-5, 6-1
- Diana Shnaider beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 6-1, 6-3
- Angelique Kerber beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-3, 6-0