Strasbourg Open: Linette advances to last 16
Magda Linette won against Sorana Cirstea 7-5, 7-5 on Monday night and will play Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 6 seed, in the next round
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Pole Magda Linette moved into the last 16 of the Strasbourg Open by winning against Romanian Sorana Cirstea 7-5, 7-5 at the Tennis Club de Strasbourg on Monday night.
Linette, ranked No 50, will play Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 6 seed, next.
Strasbourg WTA 500, other first-round results (Tennis Club de Strasbourg, clay, EUR 802.237, most recent results first):
- Emma Navarro vs. Alize Cornet
- Erika Andreeva vs. Fiona Ferro: monday
- Magdalena Frech (Q) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-3, 6-3
- Elina Svitolina (7) beat Diane Parry: 6-3, 6-4
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Cristina Bucsa (Q): 6-0, 7-5
- Katerina Siniakova beat Yulia Putintseva (Q): 6-0, 7-5
- Liudmila Samsonova (5) beat Barbora Krejcikova: 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-4
- Xinyu Wang beat Anna Kalinskaya: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Clara Burel beat Karolina Pliskova (WC): 7-5, 0-6, 6-1
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (8): 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Leylah Fernandez beat Anastasia Potapova: 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3
