Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, beat German Tatjana Maria 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the third round of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Kasatkina, ranked No 11, will play the winner of the match between Japanese Naomi Osaka and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 19 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Maria, ranked No 65, beat qualifier Linda Fruhvirtova (7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-2).
Roma WTA 1000, other second-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 5.509.771, most recent results first):
- Ons Jabeur vs. Sofia Kenin
- Elise Mertens vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Danielle Collins vs. Anna Blinkova
- Mayar Sherif vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Magda Linette
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Iga Swiatek vs. Bernarda Pera
- Emma Navarro vs. Paula Badosa
- Ana Bogdan vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Brenda Fruhvirtova
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Sloane Stephens
- Camila Osorio vs. Madison Keys
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xinyu Wang
- Coco Gauff vs. Magdalena Frech
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Naomi Osaka vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Shelby Rogers vs. Qinwen Zheng: thursday
- Linda Noskova vs. Lucrezia Stefanini: thursday
- Diana Shnaider beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 6-1, 6-3
- Angelique Kerber beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-3, 6-0
