Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 7 seed, reached the third round of the Italian Open by defeating American Shelby Rogers 6-2, 6-0 at the Foro Italico in Rome.
Zheng, ranked No 7, will play No 29 seed Linda Noskova next.
Rogers, ranked No 398, won against Italian wildcard Lisa Pigato (6-1, 6-0) in the previous round of the Rome tournament.
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
- Maria Sakkari vs. Varvara Gracheva
- 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
- Naomi Osaka vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Linda Noskova 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
