Monterrey Open: Rakhimova reaches second round
Kamilla Rakhimova edged out Katerina Siniakova 7-6 (6), 2-6, 7-6 (5) on Tuesday evening and will face Belgian Ysaline Bonaventure in the next round
Russian qualifier Kamilla Rakhimova edged out Czech Katerina Siniakova, the No 6 seed, 7-6 (6), 2-6, 7-6 (5) to move into the second round of the Monterrey Open at the Estadio GNP Seguros on Tuesday evening.
Rakhimova, ranked No 97, will play Belgian Ysaline Bonaventure 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
- Emma Navarro vs. Leolia Jeanjean
- Sachia Vickery vs. Xinyu Wang: tuesday
- Donna Vekic (3) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 2-6, 5-0 ret.
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Xiyu Wang: 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-4
- Mayar Sherif (7) beat Camila Osorio: 7-6 (5), 4-2 ret.
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto (8) beat Marina Bassols Ribera (LL): 7-5, 6-2
- Tatjana Maria beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 6-0
- Elise Mertens (4) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-0, 6-4
- 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
