Jiangxi Open: Savinykh into second round, takes out second seed Linette

Russian Valeria Savinykh moved into the second round of the Jiangxi Open by edging out Pole Magda Linette, the second seed, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3) at Nanchang International Tennis Center on Tuesday night.

Savinykh, ranked No 146, will play the winner of the match between Slovak Viktoria Hruncakova and Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich next.

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

• Laura Siegemund vs. Xinyu Wang
• Yuhan Wang vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Kathinka von Deichmann
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Viktoria Hruncakova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich: tuesday
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Hanyu Guo: tuesday
• Ulrikke Eikeri (LL) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-2, 1-2 ret.
• Xiaodi You (Q) beat Anna Blinkova (6): 6-1, 6-1
• Nao Hibino beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (1): 7-6 (2), 6-3
• Diana Shnaider beat Lin Zhu (5): 6-4, 6-0
• Kimberly Birrell beat Sijia Wei (Q): 7-5, 7-5
• Sara Sorribes Tormo (8) beat Xinyu Jiang (WC): 6-4, 6-0
• Camila Osorio beat YeXin Ma (Q): 6-1, 6-0
• Amina Anshba (LL) beat Elina Avanesyan: 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Vera Zvonareva beat Arianne Hartono: 6-1, 6-2