Korea Open: Polina Kudermetova registers her first WTA 500 win
Russian beat Priscilla Hon 7-5, 6-4 in first round on Tuesday and will play compatriot Ekaterina Alexandrova next
Polina Kudermetova (Zuma / Panoramic)
Russian lucky loser Polina Kudermetova reached the second round of the Korea Open by winning against Australian qualifier Priscilla Hon 7-5, 6-4 at the Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul on Tuesday.
This is notably Kudermetova’s maiden WTA 500 win. She began the tournament in the qualifiers and beat Japan’s Mei Yamaguchi in her opener. She then lost to China’s Jiajing Lu but entered the main draw as a lucky loser.
Kudermetova, ranked No 163, will play Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 7 seed, next.
Seoul WTA 500, other first-round results (Olympic Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Su Jeong Jang
- Peyton Stearns vs. Emma Raducanu
- Tatjana Maria vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Sloane Stephens vs. Hailey Baptiste
- Amanda Anisimova beat Yulia Putintseva (6): 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Marta Kostyuk (5) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-3, 6-1
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Varvara Lepchenko (Q): 7-5, 3-6, 6-0
- Carol Zhao (Q) beat Dayeon Back (WC): 6-4, 6-1
- Heather Watson (Q) beat Jia-Jing Lu (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Shuai Zhang: 6-4, 6-3
- Yue Yuan (8) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
