Prague Open: Cornet advances to second round
Alize Cornet won against Anastasia Zakharova 6-2, 6-3 on Tuesday and will face the winner of the match between Russian lucky loser Natalia Vikhlyantseva and Czech wildcard Linda Noskova in the next round
Frenchwoman Alize Cornet, the No 5 seed, won against Russian qualifier Anastasia Zakharova 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the Prague Open at TK Sparta Praha on Tuesday.
Cornet, ranked No 38, will face the winner of the match between Russian lucky loser Natalia Vikhlyantseva and Czech wildcard Linda Noskova next.
Prague WTA 250, other first-round results (TK Sparta Praha, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):
- Anna Blinkova vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Natalia Vikhlyantseva vs. Linda Noskova
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Ekaterine Gorgodze
- Ylena In-Albon vs. Dominika Salkova
- Oksana Selekhmeteva vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Xinyu Wang vs. Anastasia Potapova: tuesday
- Viktoriya Tomova beat Daria Snigur: 6-4, 6-2
- Barbora Palicova vs. Lucie Havlickova: tuesday
- Chloe Paquet beat Tereza Martincova: 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Dalila Jakupovic (Q) beat Alison Van Uytvanck (6): 5-2 ret.
- Lin Zhu beat Vitalia Diatchenko: 6-1, 6-1
- Magda Linette beat Elise Mertens (3): 6-3, 2-6, 6-2
- Qiang Wang (Q) beat Rebecca Peterson: 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Nao Hibino (LL) beat Mihaela Buzarnescu: 6-2, 6-2
- Marie Bouzkova (8) beat Sinja Kraus (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (2)
