Cluj-Napoca Open: Third seed Blinkova reaches second round
Anna Blinkova won against Simona Waltert 6-3, 6-0 on Monday. She’ll play Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz in the next round
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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
