Strasbourg Open: Gracheva edges out Bai to move into the last 16

Varvara Gracheva, the No 6 seed, edged out Chinese lucky loser Zhuoxuan Bai (6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (3)) on Monday to reach the last 16 of the Strasbourg Open.

Gracheva, ranked No 44, will now face Selena Janicijevic next.

Strasbourg WTA 250, other 32 results (Tennis Club de Strasbourg, clay, EUR 225.480, most recent results first):

• Magda Linette vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Angelina Gabueva
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Elena Malygina
• Shuai Zhang vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Alize Cornet: monday
• Emma Navarro beat Tereza Martincova: 6-2, 6-3
• Lauren Davis (7) beat Sarah Iliev (Q): 7-5, 6-0
• Erin Routliffe (LL) beat Su-Wei Hsieh (Q): 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-1
• Bernarda Pera (4) beat Sophie Chang (LL): 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
• Clara Burel beat Sorana Cirstea (5): 7-6 (5), 7-5
• Jil Teichmann (8) beat Maryna Zanevska: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Elina Svitolina (WC) beat Louisa Chirico: 6-4, 7-6 (1)
• Anna Blinkova beat Amandine Hesse: 4-6, 6-0, 6-4
• Selena Janicijevic beat Oceane Dodin: 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Kaia Kanepi beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2