Strasbourg Open: Burel makes last 16

Frenchwoman Clara Burel reached the last 16 of the Strasbourg Open by defeating Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 5 seed, 7-6 (5), 7-5 at the Tennis Club de Strasbourg on Monday.

Burel, ranked No 122, will play Estonian Kaia Kanepi next.

Strasbourg WTA 250, other 32 results (Tennis Club de Strasbourg, clay, EUR 225.480, most recent results first):

• Magda Linette vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Angelina Gabueva
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Elena Malygina
• Shuai Zhang vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Alize Cornet
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Sarah Iliev vs. Lauren Davis
• Emma Navarro vs. Tereza Martincova
• Su-Wei Hsieh vs. Erin Routliffe: monday
• Sophie Chang vs. Bernarda Pera: monday
• Jil Teichmann (8) beat Maryna Zanevska: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Elina Svitolina (WC) beat Louisa Chirico: 6-4, 7-6 (1)
• Anna Blinkova beat Amandine Hesse: 4-6, 6-0, 6-4
• Selena Janicijevic beat Oceane Dodin: 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Kaia Kanepi beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2