Cali Open: Monnet advances to second round

Frenchwoman Carole Monnet advanced to the second round of the Cali Open by defeating American Jamie Loeb 6-3, 6-4 at the Club Campestre de Cali on Tuesday.

Monnet, ranked No 225, will face the winner of the match between Hungarian Reka Luca Jani, the top seed, and Argentinian Nadia Podoroska next.

Cali WTA 125K Series, other first-round results (Club Campestre de Cali, clay, USD 115.000, most recent results first):

• Reka Luca Jani vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Renata Zarazua vs. Jessie Aney
• Yuliana Lizarazo vs. Whitney Osuigwe
• Emiliana Arango vs. Carol Zhao
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Elvina Kalieva
• Maria Paulina Perez-Garcia vs. Xiaodi You
• Maria Herazo Gonzalez vs. Valeriya Strakhova: tuesday
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Carolina M. Alves: tuesday
• Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Martina Colmegna: tuesday
• Aliona Bolsova (3) beat Katarzyna Kawa: 7-6 (1), 7-5
• Raluka Serban beat Quinn Gleason (Q): 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Fernanda Contreras Gomez (8) beat Marine Partaud (Q): 6-1, 1-6, 6-1
• Laura Pigossi (2) beat Gabriela Ce: 6-1, 6-1
• Paula Ormaechea beat Weronika Falkowska: 5-7, 6-0, 6-1
• Nuria Brancaccio beat Julia Riera: 7-5, 6-3