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The left-handed American needed just 81 minutes
to finish off the clay-court victory. She saved all five break
points and won 81.5 percent of her first-serve points.
"You can say I'm satisfied. I played well," Pera said afterward.
"She's a tough opponent and I'm thrilled to be in the next
round. I think she was struggling a lot with my second serve. I
was able to break her a couple of times, and that's what made
the difference."
In other matches, third-seeded Alize Cornet of France rolled to
a 6-1, 6-1 win over Italy's Jasmine Paolini; Russia's Natalia
Vikhlyantseva stunned No. 7 Aussie Daria Gavrilova 6-3, 6-2, and
China's Xinyun Han notched a 7-5, 6-4 win over Russia's Liudmila
Samsonova.
BRD Bucharest Open
Second-seeded Slovakian Viktoria Kuzmova posted a 7-5, 6-2 win
over Australia's Jaimee Fourlis to reach the quarterfinals in
Bucharest, Romania.
Sixth-seeded German Laura Siegemund recorded a 7-5, 6-3 win over
Spain's Lara Arruabarrena, while eighth-seeded Czech Kristyna
Pliskova cruised to a 6-0, 6-2 win over Belgium's Ysaline
Bonaventure.
Also, Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu defeated Slovenia's Kaja
Juvan 6-4, 6-3, and Italy's Martina Di Giuseppe dispatched
American Varvara Lepchenko 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (3).
--Field Level Media
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