Berlin Open: Gauff makes winning start on grass

Seventh seed Coco Gauff advanced to the second round of the Berlin Open by beating Ann Li 6-2, 7-6 (2) at Rot-Weiss Tennis Club on Wednesday.

The 18-year-old American teen is coming off her first Grand Slam singles final at Roland-Garros where she lost to Iga Swiatek and is ranked a career-high No 13 in the world.

This was the first grass court match of the season for Coco Gauff and she will next meet Chinese qualifier Xinyu Wang, who scored a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Tamara Korpatsch.

Berlin WTA 500, first-round results (Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, grass, EUR 611.210)

• Ons Jabeur (1) beat Karolina Muchova: 6-3, 6-3
• Alycia Parks (Q) beat Qinwen Zheng: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Veronika Kudermetova beat Aryna Sabalenka (3): 2-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Andrea Petkovic beat Garbine Muguruza (5): 7-6 (8), 6-4
• Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-3, 6-4
• Anna Kalinskaya (WC) beat Alize Cornet: 6-4, 6-4
• Belinda Bencic (8) beat Jule Niemeier (WC): 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
• Maria Sakkari (2) beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova beat Tamara Zidansek: 7-5, 6-1
• Xinyu Wang beat Tamara Korpatsch (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Anastasia Gasanova (Q): 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
• Bianca Andreescu beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Karolina Pliskova (4) beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-7 (5), 6-0, 6-0
• Daria Saville (Q) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-7 (2), 7-5, 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina (6) beat Anhelina Kalinina: 5-7, 6-3, 6-1

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