Italian Open: Vondrousova moves into third round

No 6 seed Marketa Vondrousova reached the third round of the Italian Open by edging out Romanian Ana Bogdan 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.

Vondrousova, ranked No 6, will face Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 28 seed, next.

Bogdan, ranked No 63, won against Canadian Leylah Fernandez (6-4, 6-1) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.

Roma WTA 1000, other second-round 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
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Ons Jabeur vs. Sofia Kenin
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Elena Rybakina
• Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Elise Mertens vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Danielle Collins vs. Anna Blinkova
• Maria Sakkari vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Emma Navarro vs. Paula Badosa: thursday
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-0, 6-2
• Yulia Putintseva beat Sloane Stephens (31): 6-3, 6-2
• Sorana Cirstea 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