Korea Open: Watson makes second round

Qualifier Heather Watson advanced to the second round of the Korea Open by defeating Chinese qualifier Jia-Jing Lu 6-4, 6-4 at the Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul on Monday.

Watson, ranked No 183, will face the winner of the match between Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 5 seed, next.

Seoul WTA 500, other first-round results (Olympic Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):

• Tatjana Maria vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Su Jeong Jang
• Polina Kudermetova vs. Priscilla Hon
• Peyton Stearns vs. Emma Raducanu
• Sloane Stephens vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Arantxa Rus vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Varvara Lepchenko
• Dayeon Back vs. Carol Zhao: monday
• Veronika Kudermetova beat Shuai Zhang: 6-4, 6-3
• Yue Yuan (8) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2