Berlin Open: Jabeur stunned by Niemeier in first round

German qualifier Jule Niemeier reached the last 16 of the Berlin Open by defeating Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the No 4 seed, 7-6 (4), 6-4 at Rot-Weiss Tennis Club on Tuesday evening.

Niemeier, ranked No 120, will face the winner of the match between Canadian Bianca Andreescu and Czech wildcard Marketa Vondrousova next.

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

• Victoria Azarenka vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Maria Sakkari vs. Alize Cornet
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Coco Gauff
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Liudmila Samsonova: tuesday
• Jaimee Fourlis vs. Xinyu Wang: tuesday
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Vera Zvonareva (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Elena Rybakina (2) beat Polina Kudermetova (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Anna Blinkova beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-5
• Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Daria Kasatkina (8): 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7)
• 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