Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 22 seed, won against Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-2, 7-6 (5) to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday.
Garcia, ranked No 23, will play American Danielle Collins, the No 13 seed, next.
Cocciaretto, ranked No 56, beat Mexican qualifier Renata Zarazua (4-6, 7-5, 6-3) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.
Rome 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: friday
- Anhelina Kalinina (30) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 2-0 ret.
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Magda Linette: friday
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Laura Siegemund: friday
- Anna Kalinskaya (23) beat Clara Tauson (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-4, 6-2
- Sofia Kenin beat Ons Jabeur (8): 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Oceane Dodin (LL): 5-2 ret.
- Danielle Collins beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 0-0 ret.
- Maria Sakkari (5) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (20): 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
- 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
