Italian Open: Zheng reaches third round with win over Cornet
Qinwen Zheng defeated Alize Cornet 6-3, 7-6 (2) on Thursday evening and will face Hungarian qualifier Anna Bondar in the next round
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Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 22 seed, won against Frenchwoman Alize Cornet 6-3, 7-6 (2) to reach the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.
Zheng, ranked No 21, will play Hungarian qualifier Anna Bondar next.
In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Cornet, ranked No 64, defeated Czech qualifier Tereza Martincova (7-6 (2), 6-4).
Rome WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Elena Rybakina
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Lisa Pigato vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Danka Kovinic
- Camila Giorgi vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Bernarda Pera
- Ons Jabeur vs. Paula Badosa
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Iga Swiatek vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Martina Trevisan vs. Karolina Muchova
- Claire Liu vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Donna Vekic vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Jil Teichmann vs. Julia Grabher
- Maria Sakkari vs. Barbora Strycova
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Caroline Garcia vs. Ana Bogdan
- Sofia Kenin vs. Aryna Sabalenka: thursday
- Camila Osorio vs. Petra Martic: thursday
- 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
- 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 beat Karolina Pliskova (13): 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Veronika Kudermetova (11) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 7-5, 6-2
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