Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 9 seed, moved into the third round of the Italian Open by defeating Russian Anastasia Potapova 6-4, 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Friday afternoon.
Ostapenko, ranked No 10, will face Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo next.
Potapova, ranked No 43, won against Chinese Xiyu Wang (6-1, 7-5) 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
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Caroline Garcia
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Magda Linette
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Laura Siegemund: friday
- Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya: friday
- Ons Jabeur vs. Sofia Kenin: friday
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Oceane Dodin (LL): 5-2 ret.
- Danielle Collins (13) 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
