World No.3 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus has advanced to the third round of the Italian Open (Internazionali BNL d’Italia).

           In round two the best Belarusian tennis player used some 60 minutes to see off Germany’s Julia Goerges in two sets 6-2, 6-0. Azarenka will next play Japan’s Ayumi Morita (World No.45) who beat Poland’s Urszula Radwanska (World No.35) 6-3, 6-1. Azarenka beat Morita twice in the two previous encounters.
          Another Belarusian Olga Govortsova (World No.63) did not qualify in the singles. Paired with U.S. Megan Moulton-Levy, the Belarusian lost her doubles last-16 event to Russia’s Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Rodionova of Australia 6-2, 4-6, 7-10. In the opener the Belarusian-American tandem fought hard to defeat the Chinese-Croatian duet Chan Hao-ching and Darija Jurak 3-6, 6-3, 13-11.
The Belarusian-Romanian fifth-seeded duet Max Mirnyi and Horia Tecau start the tournament by facing an international tandem Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic and Viktor Troicki of Serbia.