Monastir Open: Evgeniya Rodina makes second round

Russian Evgeniya Rodina advanced to the second round of the Monastir Open by winning against Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-1, 6-3 at the Monastir Tennis Club on Tuesday.

Evgeniya Rodina will play the winner of the match between Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the top seed, and American Ann Li next.

Monastir WTA 250, other first-round results (Monastir Tennis Club, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):

• Varvara Gracheva vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Ons Jabeur vs. Ann Li
• Yasmine Mansouri vs. Magdalena Frech
• Tamara Zidansek vs. Marina Bassols Ribera
• Harmony Tan vs. Diane Parry
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Petra Martic vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Harriet Dart vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz: tuesday
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Mirra Andreeva: tuesday
• Alize Cornet (3) beat Laura Pigossi: 7-6 (3), 6-0
• Elise Mertens (5) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-1, 6-1
• Claire Liu beat Ana Konjuh (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Lucrezia Stefanini (Q) beat Magda Linette (8): 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Despina Papamichail (Q) beat Lin Zhu: 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-0
• Katerina Siniakova (7) beat Chloe Paquet: 6-4, 4-0 ret.