Results from the first day of the WTA at Strasbourg, on Sunday (x denotes seed): 1st rd Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) 6-4, 7-5 Magda Linette (POL x8) bt Nao Hibino (JPN) 6-2, 6-0 Clara Burel (FRA) bt Varvara Gracheva (RUS) 6-3, 6-1 Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS x3) bt Lauren Davis (USA) 6-1, 7-5 afp