Berlin Open: American Gauff eases into last 16

American Coco Gauff, the No 5 seed, beat Czech Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 6-4 to move into the last 16 of the Berlin Open at Rot-Weiss Tennis Club on Tuesday evening.

Gauff, ranked No 7, will face Ekaterina Alexandrova next.

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

• Bianca Andreescu vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Maria Sakkari vs. Alize Cornet
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich: tuesday
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Rebeka Masarova: tuesday
• Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Liudmila Samsonova: 6-4, 6-3
• Jaimee Fourlis (Q) beat Xinyu Wang (Q): 3-6, 7-5 ret.
• Jule Niemeier (Q) beat Ons Jabeur (4): 7-6 (4), 6-4
• 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