Prague Open: Bouzkova into second round

Czech Marie Bouzkova, the No 5 seed, won against Chinese qualifier Xinyu Gao 6-0, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Prague Open at the Sparta Prague Tennis Club on Monday.

Bouzkova, ranked No 47, will face the winner of the match between Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova and Italian lucky loser Lucrezia Stefanini next.

Prague WTA 250, other first-round results (Sparta Prague Tennis Club, clay, USD 275.094, most recent results first):

• Aoi Ito vs. Tereza Valentova
• Barbora Palicova vs. Priscilla Hon
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Jessika Ponchet
• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Lucie Havlickova vs. Alena Kovackova
• Xinyu Wang vs. Harriet Dart
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Laura Samson vs. Dominika Salkova
• Linda Noskova vs. Anastasia Gasanova
• Jesika Maleckova vs. Rebecca Sramkova
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Astra Sharma vs. Ann Li
• Sara Bejlek vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Alycia Parks (8) beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-4, 6-2