Tokyo Open: Muchova advances to second round
Karolina Muchova benefited from the abandonment of Marketa Vondrousova (6-2, 1-0) on Monday night and will play Australian Maya Joint in the next round
Karolina Muchova, Stuttgart, 2021
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No 8 seed Karolina Muchova moved into the second round of the Tokyo Open when Marketa Vondrousova retired on Monday morning at the Ariake Coliseum.
Muchova, ranked No 12, led 6-2, 1-0 when Vondrousova, ranked No 58, pulled out at the Ariake Coliseum on Monday night.
Karolina Muchova will play Australian Maya Joint next.
Tokyo WTA 500, other first-round results (Ariake Coliseum, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Sofia Kenin
- Wakana Sonobe vs. Nikola Bartunkova
- Alina Charaeva vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Victoria Mboko vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Maria Sakkari
- Diana Shnaider vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Suzan Lamens (LL): 6-3, 6-1
- Maya Joint beat Viktorija Golubic (LL): 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
- McCartney Kessler beat Cristina Bucsa (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Xinyu Wang: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Eva Lys (Q) beat Katie Boulter (Q): 6-2, 6-1
