Italian Open: Kalinskaya ousts Mertens in second round
Anna Kalinskaya defeated Elise Mertens 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 on Friday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Italian Jasmine Paolini and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 7 seed, in the next round
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Russian Anna Kalinskaya moved into the first round of the Italian Open by winning against Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 25 seed, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday afternoon.
Kalinskaya, ranked No 57, will play the winner of the match between Italian Jasmine Paolini and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 7 seed, next.
The Russian beat Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska (6-4, 6-2) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.
Rome WTA 1000, other 64 results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina: friday
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
- Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova: friday
- Barbora Krejcikova (10) beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 4-1 ret.
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko: friday
- 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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