Cluj-Napoca Open: Top seed Rus books spot in second round
Arantxa Rus won against Greet Minnen 7-5, 6-1 on Monday evening and will face the winner of the match between French qualifier Alize Cornet and Belgian Yanina Wickmayer in the next round
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Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus, the top seed, reached the second round of the Cluj-Napoca Open by defeating Belgian Greet Minnen 7-5, 6-1 at the BTarena on Monday evening.
Rus, ranked No 45, will face the winner of the match between French qualifier Alize Cornet and Belgian Yanina Wickmayer next.
Cluj-Napoca WTA 250, other first-round results (BTarena, hard, USD 267.082, most recent results first):
- Sara Errani vs. Catherine McNally
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Emiliana Arango
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Sinja Kraus
- Miriam Bulgaru vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Anastasija Sevastova vs. Andreea Mitu
- Tamara Korpatsch vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Zhuoxuan Bai vs. Tatjana Maria
- Anca Alexia Todoni vs. Erika Andreeva
- Harriet Dart vs. Anna Bondar
- Alize Cornet vs. Yanina Wickmayer
- Ana Bogdan (8) beat Alycia Parks: 7-5, 7-5
- Anna Blinkova (3) beat Simona Waltert (Q): 6-3, 6-0
- Clara Tauson beat Nadia Podoroska (9): 6-3, 6-1
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Laura Siegemund: 6-4, 6-4
- Camila Osorio beat Viktoriya Tomova (7): 6-2, 6-4
