China Open: Boulter advances to third round
The Brit beat Taylor Townsend in straight sets on Friday
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No 26 seed Katie Boulter reached the third round of the China Open by winning against American Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-4 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Friday.
Boulter, ranked No 34, will play the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Clara Burel and American Coco Gauff, the No 4 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Beijing tournament, Townsend, ranked No 52, defeated Italian Martina Trevisan (6-2, 4-6, 6-3).
Beijing WTA 1000, other second-round results (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8.955.610, most recent results first):
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Camila Osorio vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Jana Fett
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Donna Vekic
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Magda Linette
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Clara Tauson
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Yue Yuan vs. Karolina Muchova
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elise Mertens
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Sijia Wei vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Madison Keys vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Lulu Sun
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Clara Burel vs. Coco Gauff
- Magdalena Frech vs. Alycia Parks
- Naomi Osaka vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Diane Parry vs. Jessica Pegula
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Katie Volynets
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Paula Badosa vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Diana Shnaider (12) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-2, 6-3
- Shuai Zhang (WC) beat Emma Navarro (6): 6-4, 6-2
- Greet Minnen beat Anastasia Potapova (28): 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
- Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Katerina Siniakova (27): 6-2, 6-2
