Also advancing were No. 3 seed Marie Bouzkova
and her fellow Czech, Katerina Siniakova. French seventh seed
Varvara Gracheva, Leylah Fernandez of Canada, Norway's Ulrikke
Eikeri and Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus also moved to the
second round.
Transylvania Open
Eva Lys of Germany surprised top-seeded Sorana Cirstea of
Romania 6-3, 6-3 in just 72 minutes in the first round in
Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Lys won 31 of 51 first-service points (60.8 percent) and
converted six of her seven chances to break Cirstea's serve.
The second and third seeds also bowed out. Romanian
Elena-Gabriela Ruse beat No. 2 American Alycia Parks 6-2, 1-6,
6-4, and Ukraine's Daria Snigur upset No. 3 Greet Minnen of
Belgium 6-3, 6-2 in only 65 minutes.
No. 5 seed Ana Bogdan of Romania, Colombia's Emiliana Arango,
Hungary's Anna Bondar and Germans Tamara Korpatsch and Anna-Lena
Friedsam also advanced.
Jasmin Open Monastir
Top seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy cruised past France's Alize
Cornet 6-4, 6-2 in opening-round action in Monastir, Tunisia.
Paolini both saved five of seven break points and converted five
of seven opportunities to break Cornet's serve as she eased to
the second round to face Croatian Petra Marcinko, who was a 7-6
(7), 6-2 winner over Spain's Marina Bassols Ribera.
No. 2 seed Elise Mertens of Belgium also won, beating Alexandra
Eala of the Philippines 7-5, 6-0, while third-seeded Italian
Martina Trevisan fell to Poland's Katarzyna Kawa 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.
Other winners included No. 4 seed Lesia Tsurenko and Katarina
Zavatska of Ukraine, No. 6 seed Lucia Bronzetti of Italy,
Russia's Erika Andreeva, Japan's Mai Hontama, Nuria Parrizas
Diaz of Spain and American Claire Liu.
--Field Level Media
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