Italian Open: Sorribes Tormo makes third round

Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo advanced to the third round of the Italian Open by edging out Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the No 20 seed, 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.

Sorribes Tormo, ranked No 47, will face the winner of the match between Russian Anastasia Potapova and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 9 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Rome tournament, the Spaniard beat Argentinian Nadia Podoroska (6-4, 6-3).

Rome WTA 1000, other 64 results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):

• Mayar Sherif vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Katie Volynets vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Katie Boulter
• Elina Svitolina vs. Sara Errani
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Caroline Garcia
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Laura Siegemund
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Magda Linette
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Jelena Ostapenko: friday
• Ons Jabeur vs. Sofia Kenin: friday
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Oceane Dodin: friday
• Danielle Collins (13) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 0-0 ret.
• Maria Sakkari (5) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• 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