Strasbourg Open: Birrell reaches last 16

Australian Kimberly Birrell reached the last 16 of the Strasbourg Open by winning against Estonian qualifier Elena Malygina 6-2, 6-3 at the Tennis Club de Strasbourg on Monday evening.

Birrell, ranked No 111, will face No 4 seed Bernarda Pera next.

Strasbourg WTA 250, other last-32 results (Tennis Club de Strasbourg, clay, EUR 225.480, most recent results first):

• Magda Linette vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Angelina Gabueva: monday
• Anna-Lena Friedsam beat Shuai Zhang (3): 6-0, 6-0
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Alize Cornet: 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Emma Navarro beat Tereza Martincova: 6-2, 6-3
• Varvara Gracheva (6) beat Zhuoxuan Bai (LL): 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (3)
• Lauren Davis (7) beat Sarah Iliev (Q): 7-5, 6-0
• Erin Routliffe (LL) beat Su-Wei Hsieh (Q): 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-1
• Bernarda Pera beat Sophie Chang (LL): 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
• Clara Burel beat Sorana Cirstea (5): 7-6 (5), 7-5
• Jil Teichmann (8) beat Maryna Zanevska: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Elina Svitolina (WC) beat Louisa Chirico: 6-4, 7-6 (1)
• Anna Blinkova beat Amandine Hesse: 4-6, 6-0, 6-4
• Selena Janicijevic beat Oceane Dodin: 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Kaia Kanepi beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2