Berlin Open: Vekic reaches last 16

Croat Donna Vekic advanced to the last 16 of the Berlin Open by beating Russian Varvara Gracheva 6-3, 6-2 at Rot-Weiss Tennis Club on Monday.

Vekic, ranked No 23, will face the winner of the match between Russian qualifier Polina Kudermetova and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the second seed, next.

Berlin WTA 500, other 32 results (Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, grass, EUR 678.814, most recent results first):

• Polina Kudermetova vs. Elena Rybakina
• Laura Siegemund vs. Anna Blinkova
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Petra Martic
• Jule Niemeier vs. Ons Jabeur
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Maria Sakkari vs. Alize Cornet
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Jaimee Fourlis vs. Xinyu Wang
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Coco Gauff
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Vera Zvonareva
• Caroline Garcia vs. Sabine Lisicki
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Petra Kvitova