Monastir Open: Liu reaches second round, Siniakova next

American Claire Liu won against Croat qualifier Ana Konjuh 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Monastir Open at the Monastir Tennis Club on Monday.

Liu, ranked No 73, will face Czech Katerina Siniakova, the No 7 seed, next.

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

• Varvara Gracheva vs. Veronika Kudermetova: later in Monastir
• Yasmine Mansouri vs. Magdalena Frech: later in Monastir
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Diane Parry: later in Monastir
• Harriet Dart vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz: later in Monastir
• Tamara Zidansek vs. Marina Bassols Ribera: later in Monastir
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Mirra Andreeva: later in Monastir
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Kamilla Rakhimova: later in Monastir
• Petra Martic vs. Linda Fruhvirtova: later in Monastir
• Evgeniya Rodina vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse: later in Monastir
• Ons Jabeur vs. Ann Li: later in Monastir
• Laura Pigossi vs. Alize Cornet: later in Monastir
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Elise Mertens: later in Monastir
• Magda Linette vs. Lucrezia Stefanini: later in Monastir
• Despina Papamichail (Q) beat Lin Zhu: 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-0
• Katerina Siniakova beat Chloe Paquet: 6-4, 4-0 ret.