Monastir Open: Stefanini moves into second round defeating Linette

Italian qualifier Lucrezia Stefanini reached the second round of the Monastir Open by edging out Pole Magda Linette, the No 8 seed, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 at the Monastir Tennis Club on Monday afternoon.

Stefanini, ranked No 152, will face the winner of the match between Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko and Frenchwoman Diane Parry next.

Monastir WTA 250, other first-round results (Monastir Tennis Club, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):

• Varvara Gracheva vs. Veronika Kudermetova: later in Monastir
• Yasmine Mansouri vs. Magdalena Frech: later in Monastir
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Diane Parry: later in Monastir
• Harriet Dart vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz: later in Monastir
• Tamara Zidansek vs. Marina Bassols Ribera: later in Monastir
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Mirra Andreeva: later in Monastir
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Kamilla Rakhimova: later in Monastir
• Petra Martic vs. Linda Fruhvirtova: later in Monastir
• Evgeniya Rodina vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse: later in Monastir
• Ons Jabeur vs. Ann Li: later in Monastir
• Laura Pigossi vs. Alize Cornet: later in Monastir
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Elise Mertens: later in Monastir
• Claire Liu beat Ana Konjuh (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Despina Papamichail (Q) beat Lin Zhu: 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-0
• Katerina Siniakova (7) beat Chloe Paquet: 6-4, 4-0 ret.