Monastir Open: Zidansek advances to second round

Slovenian Tamara Zidansek reached the second round of the Monastir Open by edging out Spanish qualifier Marina Bassols Ribera 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 at the Monastir Tennis Club on Tuesday.

Zidansek, ranked No 101, will play No 6 seed Anastasia Potapova 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
• Magdalena Frech beat Yasmine Mansouri (WC): 6-3, 6-2
• Petra Martic (4) beat Linda Fruhvirtova (Q): 6-2, 7-5
• Moyuka Uchijima (Q) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-3, 6-3
• Diane Parry beat Harmony Tan (LL): 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
• Harriet Dart beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 6-2, 6-4
• Anastasia Potapova beat Mirra Andreeva (WC): 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3
• Evgeniya Rodina beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse: 6-1, 6-3
• 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.