Porsche Grand Prix: Vekic through to last 16

Croat Donna Vekic advanced to the last 16 of the Porsche Grand Prix by beating Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-6 (7), 7-6 (5) at the Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart on Monday evening.

Vekic, ranked No 23, will play the winner of the match between Czech Karolina Pliskova and Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 8 seed, next.

Stuttgart WTA 500, other 32 results (Porsche-Arena, EUR 780.637, most recent results first):

• Coco Gauff vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Jule Niemeier vs. Elena Rybakina
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Maria Sakkari
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Emma Raducanu
• Tatjana Maria vs. Ylena In-Albon
• Petra Martic vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Paula Badosa
• Martina Trevisan vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Tamara Korpatsch (Q): 3-6, 6-4, 6-0
• Qinwen Zheng beat Alycia Parks (LL): 6-4, 6-4