Anett Kontaveit qualified for the second round of the WTA 1000 Rome Open

Estonian tennis player Anett Kontaveit qualified for the second round of the WTA 1000 Rome Open after defeating Alycia Parks (USA) by 2-0 (6:1, 6:1) in 66 minutes.

The Estonian lost the first gave of the first set, but won 6 games in a row to close it by 6:1, making the same achievement in the second set to win the match in a little over an hour. In the second round, Anett Kontaveit will face 16th-seeded Liudmila Samsonova (Russia).

Jasmine Paolini (Italy) also won her first-round match versus Xinyu Wang (China) by 2-1 (6:4, 6:7, 6:2) and will face the 7th-seeded Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan).

In the other matches from the WTA 1000 Rome Open, Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) defeated Kaia Kanepi (Estonia) by 2-1 (6:0, 4:6, 6:2), while Sofia Kenin (USA) eliminated Cristina Bucsa (Spain) by 2-1 (6:3, 6:7, 7:5) and Caty McNally (UK) defeated Dalila Spiteri (Italy) by 2-0 (6:0, 6:1).

Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Belarus) eliminated Leylah Fernandez (Canada) by 2-1 (7:6, 4:6, 6:3).