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yMonterrey Open: Mertens moves into second round
Elise Mertens won against Diana Shnaider 6-0, 6-4 on Tuesday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Italian Camila Giorgi in the next round
Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 4 seed, won against Russian Diana Shnaider 6-0, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Monterrey Open at the Estadio GNP Seguros on Tuesday.
Mertens, ranked No 42, will face the winner of the match between Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Italian Camila Giorgi next.
Monterrey WTA 250, other first-round results (Estadio GNP Seguros, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):
- Caroline Garcia vs. Kaja Juvan
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Camila Giorgi
- Sachia Vickery vs. Xinyu Wang
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Donna Vekic
- Emma Navarro vs. Leolia Jeanjean
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Camila Osorio vs. Mayar Sherif
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Xiyu Wang
- Marina Bassols Ribera vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: tuesday
- Tatjana Maria beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 6-0
- Rebecca Marino beat Fernanda Contreras Gomez (WC): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4)
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Marie Bouzkova (2): 6-4, 6-2
- Ysaline Bonaventure beat Despina Papamichail (Q): 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1
- Lin Zhu (5) beat Anna Bondar: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Caroline Dolehide (Q) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-1, 6-0
