Nottingham Open: Zhu into last 16

Chinese Lin Zhu, the No 8 seed, reached the last 16 of the Nottingham Open by defeating American Alycia Parks 7-6 (5), 6-2 at Nottingham Tennis Centre on Monday afternoon.

Zhu, ranked No 39, will face Pole Magdalena Frech next.

Nottingham WTA 250, other 32 results (Nottingham Tennis Centre, grass, USD 259.303, most recent results first):

• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Emily Appleton vs. Katie Boulter
• Harriet Dart vs. Rebecca Marino
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Jil Teichmann vs. Viktorija Golubic
• Tereza Martincova vs. Jodie Burrage
• Magda Linette vs. Olivia Gadecki
• Katie Swan vs. Alize Cornet
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Elizabeth Mandlik
• Madison Brengle vs. Camila Giorgi
• Jule Niemeier vs. Heather Watson: monday
• Maria Sakkari (1) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Magdalena Frech beat Sonay Kartal: 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
• Donna Vekic (4) beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
• Tatjana Maria beat Shuai Zhang (6): 6-1, 6-4