Overview
- Top seeds begin on Thursday after the Round of 96 finished on Wednesday, shifting the Internazionali BNL d’Italia into second-round play.
- The official schedule put Alexandra Eala vs Magdalena Frech on Pietrangeli and Jelena Ostapenko vs Lucrezia Stefanini on Campo Centrale.
- Lilli Tagger and Ajla Tomljanovic entered as lucky losers and were assigned matches on the BNP Paribas Arena show court.
- Last Word On Sports published full-slate previews and betting picks, highlighting Eala as a moneyline value over Frech and predicting Sebastian Baez to beat Jenson Brooksby.
- Rome’s joint WTA/ATP event runs May 5–17 on outdoor clay at the Foro Italico and functions as a key lead-in where many outside the top 50 hunt ranking points before Paris.