Cleveland Open: Burel moves into second round
Clara Burel won against Elvina Kalieva 6-3, 6-2 on Monday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Katie Volynets and No 8 seed Sofia Kenin in the next round
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Frenchwoman Clara Burel won against American lucky loser Elvina Kalieva 6-3, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Cleveland Open at Jacobs Pavilion on Monday.
Burel, ranked No 57, will face the winner of the match between Katie Volynets and No 8 seed Sofia Kenin next.
Cleveland WTA 250, other first-round results (Jacobs Pavilion, hard, USD 267.082, most recent results first):
- Ana Bogdan vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Greet Minnen vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Peyton Stearns
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Yafan Wang
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Sayaka Ishii
- Katie Volynets vs. Sofia Kenin
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Lauren Davis
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Martina Trevisan
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Clara Tauson: monday
- Katrina Scott vs. McCartney Kessler: monday
- Anastasia Potapova (5) beat Diane Parry: 6-3, 6-2
- Xinyu Wang (4) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-1, 6-1
- Arantxa Rus beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
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