Berlin Open: Wimbledon champion Rybakina opens grass-court campaign with easy win
Elena Rybakina beat Polina Kudermetova 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday and will face Croat Donna Vekic in the next round
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Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the second seed, won against Russian qualifier Polina Kudermetova 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the last 16 of the Berlin Open at Rot-Weiss Tennis Club on Tuesday.
Wimbledon champion Rybakina, ranked No 3, will play Croat Donna Vekic next.
Berlin WTA 500, other last-32 results (Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, grass, EUR 678.814, most recent results first):
- Maria Sakkari vs. Alize Cornet
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Coco Gauff
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Rebeka Masarova
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Jule Niemeier vs. Ons Jabeur
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Jaimee Fourlis vs. Xinyu Wang
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Vera Zvonareva
- Laura Siegemund vs. Anna Blinkova: tuesday
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Elina Avanesyan: tuesday
- Caroline Garcia (3) beat Sabine Lisicki (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Petra Kvitova (7) beat Karolina Pliskova: 6-3, 6-4
- Donna Vekic beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-3, 6-2
