Italian Open: Linette breezes past Lin Zhu to make second round
Magda Linette defeated Lin Zhu 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday afternoon. She’ll face No 24 seed Victoria Azarenka in the next round
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Pole Magda Linette moved into the second round of the Italian Open by defeating Chinese Lin Zhu 6-3, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Linette, ranked No 51, will play No 24 seed Victoria Azarenka next.
Rome WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):
- Sara Errani vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Giorgia Pedone
- Federica Di Sarra vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Yafan Wang vs. Katie Volynets
- Daria Saville vs. Clara Tauson
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Xiyu Wang
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Renata Zarazua vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Sofia Kenin vs. Lucia Bronzetti: wednesday
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Irina-Camelia Begu: wednesday
- Petra Martic vs. Mayar Sherif: wednesday
- Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Laura Siegemund: wednesday
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Nuria Brancaccio: wednesday
- 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
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