Monastir Open: world No175 Papamichail into second round, defeating Lin Zhu
Despina Papamichail won against Lin Zhu 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-0 on Monday and will face the winner of the match between Romanian Jaqueline Cristian and Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 5 seed, in the next round
Greek qualifier Despina Papamichail advanced to the second round of the Monastir Open by beating Chinese Lin Zhu 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-0 at the Monastir Tennis Club on Monday.
Papamichail, ranked No 175, will play the winner of the match between Romanian Jaqueline Cristian and Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 5 seed, next.
Monastir WTA 250, other first-round results (Monastir Tennis Club, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Veronika Kudermetova: later in Monastir
- Yasmine Mansouri vs. Magdalena Frech: later in Monastir
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Diane Parry: later in Monastir
- Harriet Dart vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz: later in Monastir
- Tamara Zidansek vs. Marina Bassols Ribera: later in Monastir
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Mirra Andreeva: later in Monastir
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Kamilla Rakhimova: later in Monastir
- Petra Martic vs. Linda Fruhvirtova: later in Monastir
- Evgeniya Rodina vs. Elena-Gabriela Ru: later in Monastirse
- Ons Jabeur vs. Ann Li: later in Monastir
- Laura Pigossi vs. Alize Cornet: later in Monastir
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Elise Mertens: later in Monastir
- Ana Konjuh vs. Claire Liu: later in Monastir
- Magda Linette vs. Lucrezia Stefanini: later in Monastir
- Katerina Siniakova (7) beat Chloe Paquet: 6-4, 4-0 ret.
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