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Half of the third-round matches were on Saturday, with eight singles matches and the seeds – at least, the ones who survived – starting to meet.
Intriguing was No. 10 Kasatkina vs. the unseeded Naomi Osaka – won fairly routinely by Osaka – as well as Haddad Maia v Keys, won by Keys in a mild upset.
Coco Gauff was to have former Roland Garros champ Barbora Krejcikova in this round; but Krejcikova withdrew and instead she got lucky loser Jaqueline Cristian.
Cristian extracted a bagel in the second set (!!!!), but Gauff prevailed.
(Rome is 6 hours ahead of EDT)
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Internazionali BNL d’Italia
Location: Rome, Italy
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Dates: May 8 – 19, 2024
Prize money: $5,509,771
Draws: S96 – D32
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Final results
Singles, third round
Upsets
[28] Sorana Cirstea (ROU) def [6] Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) 76 (1) 63
[PR] Naomi Osaka (JPN) def [10] Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 63 63
[18] Madison Keys (USA) def [12] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 64 46 63
Seeds scuffling
[3] Coco Gauff (USA) def. [LL] Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) 61 06 63
[7] Zheng Qinwen (CHN) def. [29] Linda Noskova (CZE) 36 61 62
Seeds rolling
[1] Iga Swiatek (POL) def. Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 63 64
Other results
[PR] Angelique Kerber (GER) def. [Q] Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 63 76 (4)
Paula Badosa (ESP) def. Diana Shnaider (RUS) 57 64 64
Doubles, first round
[WC] Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini (ITA) def [2] Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) / Ellen Perez (AUS) 57 76 (6) [10-7]
[1] Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) / Elise Mertens (BEL) def. Anna Kalinskaya / Elena Vestnina (RUS) 75 62
[5] Katerina Siniakova (CZE) / Taylor Townsend (USA) def Shuko Aoyama (JPN) / Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) 63 61
[6] Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def. Anna Bondar (HUN) / Cristina Bucsa (ESP) 61 60
Sofia Kenin / Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) def Miyu Kato (JPN) / Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) 63 61
Mirra Andreeva / Vera Zvonareva (RUS) def Magda Linette (POL) / Zhang Shuai (CHN) 75 63
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