Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 12 seed, edged out Chinese Xinyu Wang 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the 32 of the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday evening.
Haddad Maia, ranked No 13, will face American Madison Keys, the No 18 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Rome tournament, Wang, ranked No 42, beat Yue Yuan (4-6, 6-1, 6-2).
Roma 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
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Caroline Garcia
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Laura Siegemund
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Magda Linette
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Ons Jabeur vs. Sofia Kenin
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Elena Rybakina
- Clara Tauson vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Elise Mertens vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Danielle Collins vs. Anna Blinkova
- Maria Sakkari vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Emma Navarro vs. Paula Badosa
- Iga Swiatek vs. Bernarda Pera
- Ana Bogdan vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Sloane Stephens
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Brenda Fruhvirtova: thursday
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
- Madison Keys beat Camila Osorio: 6-0, 4-6, 6-3
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Jaqueline Cristian: thursday
- 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
