Cluj-Napoca Open: Third seed Blinkova reaches second round

Russian Anna Blinkova, the No 3 seed, moved into the second round of the Cluj-Napoca Open by beating Swiss qualifier Simona Waltert 6-3, 6-0 at the BTarena on Monday.

Blinkova, ranked No 51, will play Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz next.

Cluj-Napoca WTA 250, other first-round results (BTarena, hard, USD 267.082, most recent results first):

• Zhuoxuan Bai vs. Tatjana Maria
• Sara Errani vs. Catherine McNally
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Sinja Kraus
• Harriet Dart vs. Anna Bondar
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Emiliana Arango
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Anastasija Sevastova vs. Andreea Mitu
• Miriam Bulgaru vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Anca Alexia Todoni vs. Erika Andreeva
• Alize Cornet vs. Yanina Wickmayer
• Arantxa Rus vs. Greet Minnen
• Alycia Parks vs. Ana Bogdan
• 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