Parma Open: Cocciaretto moves into second round
Elisabetta Cocciaretto won against Nuria Parrizas Diaz 7-5, 6-1 on Tuesday and will play the winner of the match between Italian Jasmine Paolini and German qualifier Jule Niemeier in the next round
Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto reached the second round of the Parma Open by winning against Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz, the No 7 seed, 7-5, 6-1 at the Tennis Club Parma on Tuesday.
Cocciaretto, ranked No 98, will face the winner of the match between Italian Jasmine Paolini and German qualifier Jule Niemeier next.
Parma WTA 250, other first-round results (Tennis Club Parma, clay, EUR 203.204, most recent results first):
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Martina Trevisan
- Matilde Paoletti vs. Gabriela Lee
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Jule Niemeier
- Anna Bondar vs. Mayar Sherif
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Danka Kovinic vs. Oceane Dodin: tuesday
- Arantxa Rus vs. Panna Udvardy: tuesday
- Simona Waltert (Q) beat Tamara Zidansek: 6-4, 6-4
- Maryna Zanevska beat Lucia Bronzetti (8): 6-3, 6-2
- Dalma Galfi beat Erika Andreeva (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Lauren Davis beat Sara Errani (WC): 7-5, 7-5
- Maria Sakkari (1) beat Kateryna Baindl (Q): 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-3
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Q) beat Reka Luca Jani (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Ana Bogdan (6) beat Laura Pigossi: 6-1, 6-2
- Sloane Stephens (4) beat Magdalena Frech: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
