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The seeds entered the fray on Thursday.
But because of some quality opponents that are out of the seeding because of injury or other reasons, there were some marquee second-round matches coming up.
Unfortunately, it didn’t happen.
No 9 seed Paula Badosa was supposed to return to action – and finds herself up against a suddenlly in-form Naomi Osaka. In the end, she was a late withdrawal.
And No 27 seed Ons Jabeur is also back – but Petra Kvitova, who won her first match since her return from maternity leave on Tuesday, withdrew before their match and gave Jabeur a walkover.
(Rome is six hours ahead of EDT).
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Location: Rome, Italy
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Dates: May 6 – 18, 2025
Prize Money: $6,911,032
Draws: S96 – D32
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Final results
Withdrawals and walkovers
[12] Karolina Muchova (CZE) [LL] Laura Siegemund (GER) def. Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) 62 62
Naomi Osaka (JPN) def [9] Paula Badosa (ESP) [LL] Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 26 75 61
[27] Ons Jabeur (TUN) def [PR] Petra Kvitova (CZE) WALKOVER
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[13] Diana Shnaider (RUS) def Caroline Dolehide (USA) 60 60
Upsets
Marie Bouzkova (CZE) def [18] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 60 63
[Q] Hailey Baptiste (USA) def [19] Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) 63 26 64
Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) def [23] Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 76 (2) 75
Peyton Stearns (USA) def [28] Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) 62 63
Seeds advancing
[2] Iga Swiatek (POL) def [WC] Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA) 61 60
[3] Jessica Pegula (USA) def Ashlyn Krueger (USA) 64 62
[5] Madison Keys (USA) def Varvara Gracheva (FRA) 76 (4) 61
[6] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) def Lulu Sun (NZL) 64 63
[16] Elina Svitolina (UKR) def Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP) 64 76 (2)
[17] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def Rebecca Sramkova (SVK) 16 64 63
[25] Elise Mertens (BEL) def Suzan Lamens (NED) 36 62 63
[29] Danielle Collins (USA) def. [Q] Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) 63 63