Badly started against the Egyptian qualifier Sherif, Karolina Pliskova finally turned the tide to win in three sets (6-7, 6-2, 6-4), this Tuesday Porte d'Auteuil.
The Czech, seeded n ° 2, will meet in the second round Latvian Ostapenko, winner of the Paris tournament in 2017.
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