Romanian Ana Bogdan beat Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-1 to advance to the 64 of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Roma.
Bogdan, ranked No 63, will face No 6 seed Marketa Vondrousova next.
Roma WTA 1000, other first-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):
- Sara Errani vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Xiyu Wang
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Sofia Kenin vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Nuria Brancaccio
- Diane Parry vs. Anna Blinkova
- Petra Martic vs. Mayar Sherif
- Lin Zhu vs. Magda Linette
- Donna Vekic vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Naomi Osaka vs. Clara Burel
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Greet Minnen vs. Diana Shnaider
- Magdalena Frech vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Lauren Davis vs. Angelique Kerber: tuesday
- Vittoria Paganetti vs. Lucrezia Stefanini: tuesday
- Xinyu Wang vs. Yue Yuan: tuesday
- 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
