Hungarian Grand Prix: Krunic through to second round, defeating Siegemund

Serb Aleksandra Krunic reached the second round of the Hungarian Grand Prix by defeating German Laura Siegemund 6-3, 6-4 at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest on Tuesday.

Krunic, ranked No 105, will play the winner of the match between Georgian Ekaterine Gorgodze and Chinese Shuai Zhang, the No 6 seed, next.

Budapest WTA 250, other first-round matches (Római Tennis Academy, clay, EUR 203.024, most recent results first):

• Katerina Siniakova vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Ekaterine Gorgodze vs. Shuai Zhang
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Xiyu Wang
• Rebecca Peterson vs. Laura Pigossi
• Ana Bogdan vs. Panna Udvardy
• Despina Papamichail vs. Dalma Galfi
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova
• Anna Bondar vs. Jesika Maleckova
• Reka-Luca Jani vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Natalia Szabanin vs. Martina Trevisan: tuesday
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich (5) beat Fanny Stollar (Q): 6-3, 0-6, 6-3
• Kateryna Baindl (Q) beat Timea Babos (WC): 6-4, 6-3
• Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Marina Bassols Ribera (LL): 6-2, 7-5
• Kamilla Rakhimova beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (7): 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Carolina M. Alves (Q): 6-4, 6-1