Rabat Open: Rosatello upends top seed Yuan in first round

Italian qualifier Camilla Rosatello edged out Chinese Yue Yuan, the top seed, 7-6 (7), 1-6, 6-4 to move into the last 16 of the Rabat Open at Union Sportive des Cheminots du Maroc on Monday.

Rosatello, ranked No 294, will face Russian Kamilla Rakhimova next.

Rabat WTA 250, other first-round results (Union Sportive des Cheminots du Maroc, clay, USD 267.082, most recent results first):

• Berfu Cengiz vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Lin Zhu vs. Yafan Wang
• Malak El Allami vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Martina Trevisan vs. Nao Hibino
• Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Arantxa Rus
• Aya El Aouni vs. Mayar Sherif
• Laura Siegemund vs. Anna Blinkova: monday
• Camila Osorio beat Elina Avanesyan: 3-6, 6-4, 4-0 ret.
• Peyton Stearns beat Aleksandra Krunic (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-1
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto (7) beat Yasmine Kabbaj (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Xiyu Wang (6) beat Nuria Brancaccio (Q): 7-6 (5), 7-5
• Nadia Podoroska beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-4
• Zhuoxuan Bai beat Kayla Day: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Kamilla Rakhimova beat Taylor Townsend: 2-0 ret.
• Sara Sorribes Tormo (3) beat Harriet Dart: 6-2, 6-0