Zhengzhou Open: Chinese wildcard Bai into second round

Chinese wildcard Zhuoxuan Bai moved into the second round of the Zhengzhou Open by winning against German lucky loser Tamara Korpatsch 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-1 at Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center on Tuesday.

Bai, ranked No 117, will face the winner of the match between Hungarian lucky loser Timea Babos and Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, next.

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

• Timea Babos vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Laura Siegemund (Q) beat Lin Zhu: 6-2, 6-3
• Liudmila Samsonova (11) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-3
• Petra Martic beat Magda Linette: 7-6 (5), 6-1
• Vera Zvonareva (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (9): 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Anhelina Kalinina beat Ellen Perez (Q): 6-1, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng beat Kateryna Volodko (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (LL): 6-4, 6-2
• Jasmine Paolini beat Moyuka Uchijima (LL): 6-2, 6-3
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Hanyu Guo (WC): 7-5, 6-1
• Donna Vekic (10) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-4, 6-2