WTA Italian Open: Rybakina last player to make third round
Elena Rybakina defeated Jasmine Paolini 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Friday evening and will face Russian Anna Kalinskaya in the next round
Tennis – WTA 500 – Stuttgart Open – Porsche Arena, Stuttgart, Germany – April 19, 2023 Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina in action during her round of 32 match against Germany’s Jule Niemeier (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 7 seed, won against Italian Jasmine Paolini 7-6 (4), 6-1 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday evening.
Rybakina, ranked No 6, will play Russian Anna Kalinskaya next.
Paolini, ranked No 65, defeated Chinese Xinyu Wang (6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-2) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.
Rome WTA 1000, other results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Bianca Andreescu (24): 6-0, 6-1
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Bernarda Pera (28): 6-4, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina (8) beat Lisa Pigato (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Camila Giorgi beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (15): 6-4, 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (10) beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 4-1 ret.
- Jelena Ostapenko (20) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Elise Mertens (25): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- 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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