China Open: Stearns through to second round

American Peyton Stearns won against Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the China Open on Wednesday.

Stearns, ranked No 46, will play No 20 seed Leylah Fernandez next at the National Tennis Center in Beijing.

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

• Elina Avanesyan beat Emina Bektas (LL): 6-2, 7-5
• Diane Parry beat En-Shuo Liang (Q): 4-6, 6-0, 6-0
• Shuai Zhang (WC) beat McCartney Kessler: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1)
• Katie Volynets beat Dalma Galfi (Q): 7-5, 6-1
• Clara Burel beat Tamara Korpatsch (LL): 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
• 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