Hungarian Open: Sramkova advances to second round
Rebecca Sramkova edged out Miriam Bulgaru 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Tuesday night. She’ll face the winner of the match between Chinese Xiyu Wang, the No 3 seed, and Romanian Anca Todoni in the next round
Rebecca Sramkova (Zuma/Panoramic)
Slovak Rebecca Sramkova moved into the second round of the Hungarian Open by edging out Romanian qualifier Miriam Bulgaru 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest.
Sramkova, ranked No 109, will face the winner of the match between Chinese Xiyu Wang, the No 3 seed, and Romanian Anca Todoni next.
Budapest WTA 250, other first-round results (Római Tennis Academy, clay, USD 267.082, most recent results first):
- Olga Danilovic vs. Anna Bondar
- Xiyu Wang vs. Anca Todoni
- Ella Seidel vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Diana Shnaider vs. Fanny Stollar: tuesday
- Tamara Korpatsch vs. Bernarda Pera: tuesday
- Eva Lys beat Nadia Podoroska (6): 6-3, 6-0
- Ekaterina Makarova (Q) beat Timea Babos (WC): 6-3, 6-1
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Viktoriya Tomova (2): 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Maria Timofeeva beat Simona Waltert (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Sara Sorribes Tormo (4) beat Gergana Topalova (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-0
- Rebeka Masarova beat Natalia Szabanin (WC): 6-2, 6-3
- Carole Monnet (Q) beat Amarissa Toth (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Suzan Lamens beat Varvara Gracheva (8): 6-3, 6-0
- Elina Avanesyan beat Magdalena Frech (5): 7-6 (5), 6-4
