Monterrey Open: Sherif books spot in second round
Mayar Sherif benefited from the abandonment of Camila Osorio (7-6 (5), 4-2) on Tuesday evening. She’ll face the winner of the match between American qualifier Sachia Vickery and Chinese Xinyu Wang in the next round
Egyptian Mayar Sherif, the No 7 seed, reached the second round of the Monterrey Open when Colombian Camila Osorio retired on Tuesday evening at the Estadio GNP Seguros.
Sherif, ranked No 53, led 7-6 (5), 4-2 when Osorio, ranked No 70, pulled out on Tuesday evening at the Estadio GNP Seguros.
The Egyptian will face the winner of the match between American qualifier Sachia Vickery and Chinese Xinyu Wang next.
Monterrey WTA 250, other first-round results (Estadio GNP Seguros, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):
- Caroline Garcia vs. Kaja Juvan
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Camila Giorgi
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Donna Vekic
- Emma Navarro vs. Leolia Jeanjean
- Sachia Vickery vs. Xinyu Wang
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Kamilla Rakhimova: tuesday
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Xiyu Wang: tuesday
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto (8) beat Marina Bassols Ribera (LL): 7-5, 6-2
- Tatjana Maria beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 6-0
- Elise Mertens (4) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-0, 6-4
- Rebecca Marino beat Fernanda Contreras Gomez (WC): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4)
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Marie Bouzkova (2): 6-4, 6-2
- Ysaline Bonaventure beat Despina Papamichail (Q): 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1
- Lin Zhu (5) beat Anna Bondar: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Caroline Dolehide (Q) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-1, 6-0