Italian Open: Ukraine’s Kostyuk storms into third round, plays Badosa next

Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 32 seed, reached the third round of the Italian Open by winning against American Claire Liu 6-0, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.

Kostyuk, ranked No 40, will play Spaniard Paula Badosa next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Liu, ranked No 56, beat Italian wildcard Camilla Rosatello (6-7 (9), 6-2, 6-2).

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
• Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Danka Kovinic
• Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Ons Jabeur vs. Paula Badosa: friday
• 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