China Open: Burel into second round to face Gauff

Frenchwoman Clara Burel advanced to the second round of the China Open by defeating German lucky loser Tamara Korpatsch 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 on Wednesday.

Burel, ranked No 56, will play No 4 seed Coco Gauff next at the National Tennis Center in Beijing.

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

• Katie Volynets beat Dalma Galfi (Q): 7-5, 6-1
• Naomi Osaka beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-2
• Taylor Townsend beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
• Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-4, 7-6 (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
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Qiang Wang vs. Alycia Parks
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Peyton Stearns
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Emina Bektas
• Diane Parry vs. En-Shuo Liang
• Shuai Zhang vs. McCartney Kessler