China Open: Tauson sets up Paolini showdown in second round

Dane Clara Tauson reached the second round of the China Open by beating Harriet Dart 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 on Thursday.

Tauson, ranked No 72, will face No 3 seed Jasmine Paolini next at the National Tennis Center in Beijing

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

• Nadia Podoroska beat Yufei Ren (WC): 6-4, 6-2
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Arina Rodionova (Q): 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo: thursday
• Kamilla Rakhimova (LL) beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Jana Fett (LL) beat Meiling Wang (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Camila Osorio beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Moyuka Uchijima beat Han Shi (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Cristina Bucsa beat Xinxin Yao (WC): 6-3, 6-2
• Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 6-0
• Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-0, 6-3
• Alycia Parks (Q) beat Qiang Wang: 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Peyton Stearns beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-2, 6-4
• 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
• Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
• Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
• YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang