Rouen Open: Linette moves into last 16

Poland’s Magda Linette defeated French wildcard Elsa Jacquemot 7-5, 6-1 to reach the second round of the WTA Rouen Open at the Kindarena on Monday.

Linette, ranked No 60 and a former Australian Open semi-finalist, will face the winner of the match between Serb qualifier Natalija Stevanovic and Russian Anna Blinkova, the No 8 seed, next.

Rouen WTA 250, other first round matches (Kindarena, clay, EUR 232,244):

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Caroline Garcia
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Diane Parry
• Nao Hibino vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Clara Burel vs. Katarina Zavatska
• Mayar Sherif vs. Yue Yuan
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Fiona Ferro vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Martina Trevisan vs. Naomi Osaka
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Alize Cornet
• Natalija Stevanovic vs. Anna Blinkova
• Robin Montgomery vs. Arantxa Rus
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Alice Robbe
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Sloane Stephens vs. Peyton Stearns
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Mirra Andreeva

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