Elina Svitolina and Jil Belen Teichmann advanced to the next round of Strasbourg following victories on Tuesday against Magda Linette and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Teichmann played a very good match against the Russian and it ended up being an extremely close match. The first set started off good for Teichmann who took an early 3-1 lead but failed to hang onto it with the Russian tieing it at 4-4. Pavlyuchenkova even had a chance to win it at 6-5 but failed to convey her service game allowing Teichmann to force a tiebreak.

In it it was the Swiss who played better winning it 7-3. The 2nd set stared similar with Teichman taking an early break and Anastasia fighting back, even taking a 5-3 lead. Once again she failed to win the set on her own serve giving Teichmann more than enough momentum to swing the game. She ultimately won four games in a row to secure a 7-6(3) 7-5 victory.

Elina Svitolina had to dig deep in her own match as well. She had an early lead 3-1 but she could not hang onto it. She broke Linette once more but again failed to hold onto that lead. We ended up in a tiebreak and it it it was Svitolina who completely took over winning all seven points required to win a tiebreak. The 2nd set opened slowly with Linette being the first one to strike, breaking Elina early to take a 3-1 lead. She would add one more later on to give herself a 4-1 lead but Svitolina pulled one back immidietly.

She would managed to keep the score close but at 5-4 Magda served for the set despite her level of tennis dropping steadily since the 4-1 lead. Elina seized that opportunity to break Linette and tie the game at 5-5. She would go on to win her own service game before winning the next one as well to clinch a 7-5 2nd set victory. It's a good win for Svitolina who was very lucky in the 2nd set especially late but she will take it.

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