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ROME – With Félix Auger-Aliassime first up on the ATP side, it was almost a given that Bianca Andreescu would be … last up on the women’s side.

The scheduling gods like to do that.

But Andreescu had a tough one Friday against Marketa Vondrousova. Actually, it was even tougher than you could even imagine. Andreescu got one game.

And there was plenty more in another day of potentially splendid matchups – although none of them turned out to be classics.

Iga Swiatek dropped a pair of bagels on former Roland Garros finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (who is coming back from a long injury break. And it wasn’t a huge shock that Paula Badosa upset No. 4 seed Ons Jabeur.

(Rome is six hours ahead of EDT).

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Internazionali BNL d’Italia
Location: Rome, Italy (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Category: WTA 1000
Dates: May 9 – 20, 2023
Prize money: $3,572,618
Draws: S96 – D32

Friday, May 12, 2023
Final results

Singles, second round

Canadian content

Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) def. [24] Bianca Andreescu (CAN) 60 61

Injury retirements

[10] Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) def. Danka Kovinic (MNE) 62 41 retd

Upsets

Paula Badosa (ESP) def [4] Ons Jabeur (TUN) 61 64
Camila Giorgi (ITA) def [15] Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 64 62
Karolina Muchova (CZE) def [18] Martina Trevisan (ITA) 36 63 75
Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) def [25] Elise Mertens (BEL) 64 46 63
Julia Grabher (AUT) def [26] Jil Teichmann (SUI) 76 (4) 57 63
Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) def [28] Bernarda Pera (USA) 64 64

Seeds advancing

[1] Iga Swiatek (POL) def [PR] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 60 60
[7] Elena Rybakina (KAZ) def Jasmine Paolini (ITA) 76 (4) 61
[8] Daria Kasatkina (RUS) def [WC] Lisa Pigato (ITA) 61 62
[9] Maria Sakkari (GRE) def Barbora Strycova (CZE) 61 63
[16] Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) def. Anett Kontaveit (EST) 63 63
[20] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 63 36 62
[21] Donna Vekic (CRO) def Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 36 63 63
[32] Marta Kostyuk (UKR) def. Claire Liu (USA) 60 64

Doubles, first round

Marie Bouzkova (CZE) / Bethanie Mattek Sands (USA) def [5] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Luisa Stefani (BRA) 26 62 [10-8]

Timea Babos (HUN) / Anna Danilina (KAZ) def [7] Asia Muhammad (USA) / Giuliana Olmos (MEX)  46 63 [10-6]

[1] Coco Gauff / Jessica Pegula (USA) def. Oksana Kalaskhnikova (GEO) / Yana Sizikova (RUS) 61 75

Victoria Azarenka (BLR) / Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) def. Veronika Kudermetova / Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 62 63

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