China Open: Starodubtseva beats Hua Hin runner-up Siegemund in first round

Ukrainian qualifier Yuliia Starodubtseva advanced to the second round of the China Open by defeating German Laura Siegemund 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Wednesday.

Siegemund came into the tournament after reaching the final of the Thailand Open in Hua Hin last week.

Starodubtseva, ranked No 115, will next face No 27 seed Katerina Siniakova at the National Tennis Center in Beijing.

Beijing WTA 1000, other first-round matches (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8,955,610):

• Taylor Townsend beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
• Xinyu Wang beat Mai Hontama (LL): 6-1, 6-3
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-3, 6-3
• Sofia Kenin beat Ana Bogdan: 7-5, 6-2
• Greet Minnen beat Erika Andreeva: 7-5, 6-2
• Yafan Wang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
• YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang
• Yufei Ren vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Harriet Dart vs. Clara Tauson
• Arina Rodionova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Camila Osorio vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Meiling Wang vs. Jana Fett
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Han Shi
• Xinxin Yao vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova
• Qiang Wang vs. Alycia Parks
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Diane Parry vs. En-Shuo Liang
• Shuai Zhang vs. McCartney Kessler
• Clara Burel vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Katie Volynets vs. Dalma Galfi
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Peyton Stearns
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Emina Bektas
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Naomi Osaka