American Shelby Rogers moved into the second round of the Italian Open by defeating Italian wildcard Lisa Pigato 6-1, 6-0 at the Foro Italico in Roma on Tuesday.
Rogers, ranked No 398, will play No 7 seed Qinwen Zheng 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
- Ana Bogdan vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Vittoria Paganetti vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
- Lauren Davis vs. Angelique Kerber
- Greet Minnen vs. Diana Shnaider
- Magdalena Frech vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Arantxa Rus vs. Camila Osorio
- Xinyu Wang vs. Yue Yuan
- Martina Trevisan vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Paula Badosa
