Prague Open: Linette moves into second round
Magda Linette defeated Elise Mertens 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 on Monday afternoon and will face the winner of the match between Ukrainian Daria Snigur and Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova in the next round
Pole Magda Linette beat Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 3 seed, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 to reach the second round of the Prague Open at TK Sparta Praha on Monday afternoon.
Linette, ranked No 68, will face the winner of the match between Ukrainian Daria Snigur and Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova next.
Prague WTA 250, other first-round results (TK Sparta Praha, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):
- Anna Blinkova vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Natalia Vikhlyantseva vs. Linda Noskova
- Alize Cornet vs. Anastasia Zakharova
- Oksana Selekhmeteva vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Ylena In-Albon vs. Dominika Salkova
- Daria Snigur vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Xinyu Wang vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Barbora Palicova vs. Lucie Havlickova
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Ekaterine Gorgodze
- Tereza Martincova vs. Chloe Paquet
- Dalila Jakupovic vs. Alison Van Uytvanck
- Vitalia Diatchenko vs. Lin Zhu: monday
- Qiang Wang (Q) beat Rebecca Peterson: 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Nao Hibino (LL) beat Mihaela Buzarnescu: 6-2, 6-2
- Marie Bouzkova (8) beat Sinja Kraus (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (2)
