Sharapova, Azarenka cruise into third round

Defending Rome champion Sharapova, who won her Wimbledon title aged 17 in 2004, beat 36th-ranked American Christina McHale 7-5, 7-5. Kvitova, the fourth seed who claimed the grass honours last summer, accounted for Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-5, 6-4