Prague Open: Zhu makes second round

Chinese Lin Zhu won against Russian Vitalia Diatchenko 6-1, 6-1 to move into the second round of the Prague Open at TK Sparta Praha on Monday afternoon.

Zhu, ranked No 100, will face the winner of the match between Chinese Xinyu Wang and Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 7 seed, 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
• Alize Cornet vs. Anastasia Zakharova
• Oksana Selekhmeteva vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Ylena In-Albon vs. Dominika Salkova
• Daria Snigur vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Xinyu Wang vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Barbora Palicova vs. Lucie Havlickova
• Anett Kontaveit vs. Ekaterine Gorgodze
• Tereza Martincova vs. Chloe Paquet
• Dalila Jakupovic vs. Alison Van Uytvanck: monday
• 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)