Stuttgart Open: Alexandrova through to second round
Ekaterina Alexandrova won against Liudmila Samsonova 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday afternoon. She’ll play the winner of the match between No 6 seed Mirra Andreeva and lucky loser Erika Andreeva in the next round
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Ekaterina Alexandrova won against Liudmila Samsonova 6-3, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Stuttgart Open at the Porsche-Arena on Tuesday afternoon.
Alexandrova, ranked No 22, will play the winner of the match between No 6 seed Mirra Andreeva and lucky loser Erika Andreeva next.
Stuttgart WTA 500, other first-round results (Porsche-Arena, clay, EUR 925.661, most recent results first):
- Magdalena Frech vs. Sara Errani
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Erika Andreeva
- Tatjana Maria vs. Ella Seidel
- Emma Navarro vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Eva Lys vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Jule Niemeier vs. Laura Siegemund
- Donna Vekic vs. Jana Fett: tuesday
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Dayana Yastremska (Q): 6-3, 3-0 ret.
- Diana Shnaider (8) beat Veronika Kudermetova (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-3
- Anastasia Potapova beat Clara Tauson: 2-6, 7-6 (8), 6-3
- Elise Mertens beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-2
