Hong Kong Open: Junior Grand Slam champ Korneeva scores first WTA level win

Qualifier Alina Korneeva, winner of the Australian Open and Roland-Garros junior singles titles in 2023, defeated Valeria Savinykh 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Hong Kong Open on Wednesday.

This is the first WTA level main draw win for the 16-year-old from Russia, who came through the qualifying draw.

Korneeva, ranked No 179 among the pros and currently ranked No 2 among the juniors, will play fellow teen Linda Fruhvirtova, aged 18, next.

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Hong Kong Open WTA 250, other first-round matches (Hard, USD 259,303):

• Elise Mertens (3) beat Daria Saville (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (2) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-6 (3)
• Magdalena Frech beat Anna Danilina (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Ho Ching Wu (WC): 6-1, 6-0
• Xinyu Wang (4) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-2, 4-1 ret.
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Jana Fett: 6-0, 6-0
• Linda Fruhvirtova beat Peyton Stearns (7): 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Leylah Fernandez beat Victoria Azarenka (1): 2-6, 6-3 ret.
• Martina Trevisan (6) beat Cristina Bucsa: 7-5, 6-2
• Anna Blinkova (5) beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-4, 2-6, 5-1 ret.
• Priscilla Hon beat Eudice Wong Chong (WC): 7-5, 7-5
• Kamilla Rakhimova beat Varvara Gracheva (8): 6-3, 6-2
• Mirra Andreeva beat Dayana Yastremska: 6-4, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Xiyu Wang: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• Sofya Lansere vs. Hong Yi Cody Wong

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