Jiangxi Open: Lucky loser Anshba into second round

Lucky loser Amina Anshba edged out Elina Avanesyan 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 to move into the second round of the Jiangxi Open at Nanchang International Tennis Center on Monday.

Anshba, ranked No 424, will face the winner of the match between No 3 seed Marie Bouzkova and Liechtensteiner qualifier Kathinka von Deichmann next.

Nanchang WTA 250, other first-round results (Nanchang International Tennis Center, USD 259.303, most recent results first):

• Valeria Savinykh vs. Magda Linette
• Viktoria Hruncakova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Hanyu Guo
• Anna Blinkova vs. Xiaodi You
• Laura Siegemund vs. Xinyu Wang
• Ulrikke Eikeri vs. Kaja Juvan
• Yuhan Wang vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Kathinka von Deichmann
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Nao Hibino
• Diana Shnaider vs. Lin Zhu
• Sijia Wei vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Sara Sorribes Tormo (8) beat Xinyu Jiang (WC): 6-4, 6-0
• Camila Osorio beat YeXin Ma (Q): 6-1, 6-0
• Vera Zvonareva beat Arianne Hartono: 6-1, 6-2