Eastbourne Open: Mertens beats Miyazaki to reach last 16
Elise Mertens beat Yuriko Lily Miyazaki 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday and will face No 3 seed Jasmine Paolini in the next round
Elise Mertens, 2024 – © Action Plus / Panoramic
Belgian Elise Mertens moved into the last 16 of the Eastbourne Open by winning against wildcard Yuriko Lily Miyazaki 6-1, 6-2 at Devonshire Park Lawn Club on Tuesday.
Mertens, ranked No 33, will face No 3 seed Jasmine Paolini next.
Eastbourne WTA 500, other first-round results (Devonshire Park Lawn Club, grass, USD 922.573, most recent results first):
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Xinyu Wang
- Katie Boulter vs. Petra Martic
- Sloane Stephens vs. Emma Raducanu
- Karolina Muchova vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Viktorija Golubic: tuesday
- Leylah Fernandez beat Barbora Krejcikova (7): 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
- Yue Yuan beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-3, 6-6 ret.
- Jelena Ostapenko (5) beat Greet Minnen (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-1
- Harriet Dart (WC) beat Marie Bouzkova: 7-5, 6-7 (7), 6-4
- Magda Linette (Q) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (8): 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Anhelina Kalinina (Q) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-3, 6-2
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