Rouen Open: Bassols Ribera upsets second seed Burel to reach second round

Spain’s Marina Bassols Ribera upset Frenchwoman Clara Burel, the second seed, 7-5, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Rouen Open at Palais des sports de Rouen on Tuesday.

Bassols Ribera, ranked No 111, will play fellow Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz next.

Rouen WTA 125, other first-round matches (Palais des sports de Rouen, USD 115,000):

• Alize Cornet (5) beat Jessika Ponchet: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
• Oceane Dodin beat Anna Bondar (8): 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Astra Sharma (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Tiphanie Lemaitre (Q) beat Margaux Rouvroy (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Dalma Galfi beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4
• Jaqueline Cristian (7) beat Lucrezia Stefanini: 7-6 (5), 6-1
• Alice Robbe (WC) beat Anna-Lena Friedsam: 6-4, 6-1
• Simona Waltert beat Chloe Paquet (WC): 6-0, 5-7, 6-2
• Greet Minnen (1) beat Yuriko Miyazaki: 6-4, 6-4
• Jodie Burrage (4) beat Daria Snigur: 6-3, 6-3
• Celine Naef beat Leolia Jeanjean: 6-3, 6-3
• Erika Andreeva (Q) beat Jil Teichmann: 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Fiona Ferro vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Elsa Jacquemot
• Aliona Bolsova vs. Iryna Shymanovich

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