Thailand Open: Watson through to second round, takes out second seed Putintseva

Heather Watson reached the second round of the Thailand Open by edging out Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the second seed, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (5) at the True Arena Hua Hin on Tuesday.

Watson, ranked No 160, will face the winner of the match between Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Na-Lae Han next.

Hua Hin WTA 250, other first-round results (True Arena Hua Hin, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):

• Dayana Yastremska vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Harriet Dart
• En-Shuo Liang vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Bethanie Mattek-Sands
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Anastasia Zakharova: tuesday
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Na-Lae Han: tuesday
• Anna Kalinskaya (4) beat Ekaterina Makarova (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Tatjana Maria (6) beat Alexandra Eala (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Nao Hibino beat Valeria Savinykh (Q): 6-0, 6-2
• Mirjam Bjorklund beat Lanlana Tararudee (WC): 6-2, 6-4
• Tamara Zidansek beat Astra Sharma (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Lin Zhu beat Xiyu Wang (3): 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
• Xinyu Wang (7) beat Joanne Zuger (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Su Jeong Jang beat Katie Boulter: 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Ysaline Bonaventure: 6-3, 4-6, 6-4