Chennai champion Fruhvirtova goes down to Wickmayer in Seoul
Yanina Wickmayer beats Linda Fruhvirtova 6-1, 6-4 and will face the winner of the match between Japanese Moyuka Uchijima and No 6 seed Emma Raducanu in the next round
Linda Fruhvirtova at the 2022 Chennai Open
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Toiling her way through three three-set matches and over10 hours while claiming her first WTA singles title in Chennai last week finally caught up with Linda Fruhvirtova as the 17-year-old was knocked out of the Seoul Open in the first round on Wednesday.
Fruhvirtova, who climbed to No 74 in the latest rankings with the win to become the youngest player in the top 100, went down to former world No 15 Yanina Wickmayer, of Belgium, 6-1, 6-4 in one hour and 29 minutes.
Wickmayer, on the comeback trail after giving birth to her daughter last April, is now ranked No 460 and this was her first WTA Tour-level win as a mother.
She will next face either sixth seed Emma Raducanu or Moyuka Uchijima for a place in the quarter-finals.
Seoul WTA 250, first-round matches (Seoul Olympic Park)
- Anna Blinkova beat Varvara Gracheva (5): 6-4, 7-6 (1)
- Magda Linette (3) beat Arianne Hartono: 6-2, 7-5
- Tatjana Maria (7) beat Eugenie Bouchard: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5)
- Jelena Ostapenko (1) beat Boyoung Jeong (WC): 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2)
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (2) beat Asia Muhammad: 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
- Anastasia Gasanova beat Astra Sharma (Q): 7-5, 7-5
- Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (LL) beat Chloe Paquet: 6-2, 6-2
- Ankita Raina (Q) beat Maddison Inglis: 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
- Kristina Mladenovic beat Sohyun Park (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Rebecca Marino (8) beat Jana Fett (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Kimberly Birrell beat Priscilla Hon: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- Lin Zhu (4) beat Su Jeong Jang: 6-3, 6-4
- Na-Lae Han (WC) beat Dayeon Back (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Lulu Sun (Q) beat Lizette Cabrera (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-2
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Emma Raducanu
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