Monterrey Open: Mertens moves into second round

Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 4 seed, won against Russian Diana Shnaider 6-0, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Monterrey Open at the Estadio GNP Seguros on Tuesday.

Mertens, ranked No 42, will face the winner of the match between Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Italian Camila Giorgi next.

Monterrey WTA 250, other first-round results (Estadio GNP Seguros, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):

• Caroline Garcia vs. Kaja Juvan
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Camila Giorgi
• Sachia Vickery vs. Xinyu Wang
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Donna Vekic
• Emma Navarro vs. Leolia Jeanjean
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Camila Osorio vs. Mayar Sherif
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Xiyu Wang
• Marina Bassols Ribera vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: tuesday
• Tatjana Maria beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 6-0
• Rebecca Marino beat Fernanda Contreras Gomez (WC): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4)
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Marie Bouzkova (2): 6-4, 6-2
• Ysaline Bonaventure beat Despina Papamichail (Q): 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1
• Lin Zhu (5) beat Anna Bondar: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Caroline Dolehide (Q) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-1, 6-0