Italian Open: Home hope Cocciaretto downs Zarazua to reach second round

Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Mexican qualifier Renata Zarazua 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the 64 of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Cocciaretto, ranked No 56, will face No 22 seed Caroline Garcia next.

Roma WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):

• Yafan Wang vs. Katie Volynets
• Sara Errani vs. Amanda Anisimova: thursday
• Daria Saville vs. Clara Tauson: thursday
• Anastasia Potapova beat Xiyu Wang: 6-1, 7-5
• Laura Siegemund (Q) beat Maria Lourdes Carle (Q): 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Giorgia Pedone (WC): 6-4, 6-1
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Rebeka Masarova (Q): 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
• Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-4, 6-3
• Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Federica Di Sarra (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Sofia Kenin beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-2
• Mayar Sherif beat Petra Martic: 6-2, 6-2
• Katerina Siniakova beat Nuria Brancaccio (WC): 6-4, 6-2
• Magda Linette beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-2
• Naomi Osaka beat Clara Burel: 7-6 (2), 6-1
• Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Caroline Dolehide: 7-6 (6), 6-3
• Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Taylor Townsend: 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q) beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Anna Blinkova beat Diane Parry: 6-2, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Donna Vekic: 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Tatjana Maria beat Linda Fruhvirtova (Q): 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-2
• Elina Avanesyan beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-7 (3), 6-0, 7-5
• Diana Shnaider beat Greet Minnen: 6-2, 6-3
• Magdalena Frech beat Ashlyn Krueger: 7-6 (2), 6-3
• Angelique Kerber beat Lauren Davis: 6-1, 6-0
• Lucrezia Stefanini (WC) beat Vittoria Paganetti (WC): 7-5, 6-3
• Ana Bogdan beat Leylah Fernandez: 6-4, 6-1
• Xinyu Wang beat Yue Yuan: 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Camila Osorio beat Arantxa Rus: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Martina Trevisan (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Paula Badosa beat Mirra Andreeva: 6-2, 6-3
• Shelby Rogers beat Lisa Pigato (WC): 6-1, 6-0