Rabat Open: Qualifier Cengiz beaten in first round

Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova beat qualifier Berfu Cengiz 6-2, 6-1 to reach the last 16 of the Rabat Open at Union Sportive des Cheminots du Maroc on Tuesday afternoon.

Tomova, ranked No 84, will face Yafan Wang next.

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

• Martina Trevisan vs. Nao Hibino: tuesday
• Mayar Sherif beat Aya El Aouni (WC): 6-2, 6-1
• Yafan Wang beat Lin Zhu (8): 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
• Lucia Bronzetti (4) beat Malak El Allami (WC): 6-1, 6-0
• Maria Lourdes Carle beat Arantxa Rus (5): 6-3, 6-3
• Laura Siegemund beat Anna Blinkova (2): 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Camilla Rosatello (Q) beat Yue Yuan (1): 7-6 (7), 1-6, 6-4
• 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