Italian Open: Sabalenka makes third round, comes back from set down v Volynets

Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, reached the round of 32 of the Italian Open by defeating American qualifier Katie Volynets 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Friday evening.

It is her sixth three-set win in a WTA 1000 event this year – only Elena Rybakina has gone the distance more times, with seven.

Sabalenka, ranked No 2, will play Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 32 seed, next.

Volynets, ranked No 109, won against Chinese Yafan Wang (7-6 (6), 6-1) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.

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

• Mayar Sherif vs. Jasmine Paolini: friday
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Katie Boulter: friday
• Elina Svitolina (16) beat Sara Errani (WC): 6-0, 6-2
• Anhelina Kalinina (30) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 2-0 ret.
• Caroline Garcia (22) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Victoria Azarenka (24) beat Magda Linette: 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3
• Dayana Yastremska beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Anna Kalinskaya (23) beat Clara Tauson (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-4, 6-2
• Sofia Kenin beat Ons Jabeur (8): 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Oceane Dodin (LL): 5-2 ret.
• Danielle Collins (13) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 0-0 ret.
• Maria Sakkari (5) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (20): 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
• Elise Mertens (27) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-1, 6-4
• Paula Badosa beat Emma Navarro (21): 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-0, 6-2
• Yulia Putintseva beat Sloane Stephens (31): 6-3, 6-2
• Marketa Vondrousova (6) beat Ana Bogdan: 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
• Sorana Cirstea (28) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q): 7-5, 6-0
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Xinyu Wang: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Madison Keys (18) beat Camila Osorio: 6-0, 4-6, 6-3
• Jaqueline Cristian (LL) beat Elina Avanesyan: 5-7, 6-2, 6-2
• Naomi Osaka beat Marta Kostyuk (19): 6-3, 6-2
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (14): 6-0, 6-1
• Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-2, 6-0
• Linda Noskova (29) beat Lucrezia Stefanini (WC): 6-3, 7-6 (1)
• Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Tatjana Maria: 7-5, 6-1
• Diana Shnaider beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 6-1, 6-3
• Angelique Kerber beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-3, 6-0