Italian Open: Volynets makes second round
Katie Volynets beat Yafan Wang 7-6 (6), 6-1 on Thursday afternoon and will play second seed Aryna Sabalenka in the next round
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American qualifier Katie Volynets reached the second round of the Italian Open by defeating Chinese Yafan Wang 7-6 (6), 6-1 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Thursday.
Volynets, ranked No 109, will face second seed Aryna Sabalenka next.
Roma WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):
- Sara Errani (WC) beat Amanda Anisimova: 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
- Clara Tauson (Q) beat Daria Saville: 6-2, 6-3
- Anastasia Potapova beat Xiyu Wang: 6-1, 7-5
- Laura Siegemund (Q) beat Maria Lourdes Carle (Q): 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Giorgia Pedone (WC): 6-4, 6-1
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Rebeka Masarova (Q): 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Renata Zarazua (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-4, 6-3
- Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Federica Di Sarra (WC): 6-1, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-2
- Mayar Sherif beat Petra Martic: 6-2, 6-2
- Katerina Siniakova beat Nuria Brancaccio (WC): 6-4, 6-2
- Magda Linette beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-2
- 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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