Arantxa Rus, the No 5 seed from the Netherlands, advanced to the second round of the Palermo Open by defeating Italian Martina Trevisan with a score of 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-2 at A.S.D. Country Time Club on Tuesday evening.
Rus, who is ranked No 62, is set to face Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu in the next round.
Here are the other first-round results from the Palermo WTA 250 tournament at A.S.D. Country Time Club on clay, with the most recent results listed first:
- Erika Andreeva vs. Darja Semenistaja
- Julia Riera vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Elsa Jacquemot
- Ann Li vs. Peyton Stearns
- Emiliana Arango vs. Petra Martic
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Sara Errani
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Mayar Sherif: Tuesday
- Diane Parry vs. Olivia Gadecki: Tuesday
- Maria Lourdes Carle defeated Tatjana Maria (8) with a score of 5-7, 6-1, 6-1
- Chloe Paquet defeated Saisai Zheng with a score of 6-3, 6-3
- Irina-Camelia Begu defeated Marina Bassols Ribera with a score of 6-0, 6-0
- Karolina Muchova (2) defeated Katarzyna Kawa (Q) with a score of 7-6 (14), 5-1 (ret.)
- Jil Teichmann (Q) defeated Mia Ristic (Q) with a score of 6-1, 6-1
- Astra Sharma defeated Anna Blinkova (6) with a score of 6-0, 7-5
- Noma Noha Akugue (Q) defeated Mona Barthel (Q) with a score of 6-4, 2-6, 6-2