La Bisbal d’Emporda Open: Wildcard Mladenovic stuns top seed Minnen for first WTA win since August

French wildcard Kristina Mladenovic upset top seed Greet Minnen of Belgium 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the La Bisbal d’Emporda Open at the Club Esportiu CT La Bisbal in La Bisbal d’Emporda on Tuesday.

It was the first WTA 125 win for Mladenovic, ranked No 268, since last August. The Frenchwoman will face Slovak Rebecca Sramkova next.

La Bislab d’Emporda WTA 125K Series, other first-round results (Club Esportiu CT La Bisbal, clay, USD 115.000, most recent results first):

• Marina Bassols Ribera vs. Timea Babos
• Dalma Galfi vs. Ella Seidel
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Olga Danilovic vs. Darja Semenistaja
• Zeynep Sonmez vs. Guiomar Maristany Zuleta De Reales
• Sinja Kraus vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Harriet Dart vs. Elsa Jacquemot: tuesday
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse (LL) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 6-2, 6-1
• Oksana Selekhmeteva (Q) beat Leyre Romero Gormaz (WC): 7-5, 6-3
• Katarzyna Kawa (Q) beat Zhuoxuan Bai (3): 5-7, 7-5, 6-3
• Rebeka Masarova (5) beat Fiona Ferro: 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
• Maria Lourdes Carle (6) beat Sara Bejlek: 6-1, 6-3
• Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (Q) beat Chloe Paquet: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Rebecca Sramkova beat Leolia Jeanjean: 6-0, 7-5
• Eva Lys beat Oceane Dodin (2): 6-4, 6-1