Zhengzhou Open: Bronzetti knocks out wildcard Guo to reach second round

Italian Lucia Bronzetti beat Chinese wildcard Hanyu Guo 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Zhengzhou Open at Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center.

Bronzetti, ranked No 63, will face No 4 seed Ons Jabeur next.

Zhengzhou WTA 500, other first-round results (Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center, hard, USD 780.637, most recent results first):

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Lin Zhu vs. Laura Siegemund
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Tatjana Maria
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Vera Zvonareva
• Petra Martic vs. Magda Linette
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Ellen Perez
• Kateryna Volodko vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Diana Shnaider
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Jasmine Paolini: monday
• Donna Vekic beat Nao Hibino: 6-4, 6-2