China Open: Local favourite Wang sets up Kudermetova clash in second round
Wang won against Mai Hontama 6-1, 6-3 in the first round on Wednesday
Xinyu Wang (Hua Hin)
China’s Xinyu Wang beat Japanese lucky loser Mai Hontama 6-1, 6-3 to move into the second round of the WTA China Open on Wednesday.
The Chinese player was scheduled to play Amanda Anisimova in the first round but the American withdrew, which sent Hontama into the main draw as a lucky loser. This was the 22-year-old’s 24th win of the season on the WTA Tour.
Wang, ranked No 50, will face No 32 seed Veronika Kudermetova at the National Tennis Center in Beijing next.
Beijing WTA 1000, other first round matches (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8,955,610):
- 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
- Kimberly Birrell vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Yufei Ren vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Camila Osorio vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Meiling Wang vs. Jana Fett
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang
- YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Han Shi
- Harriet Dart vs. Clara Tauson
- Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
- Arina Rodionova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Xinxin Yao vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
- Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Yafan Wang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova
- Qiang Wang vs. Alycia Parks
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Hailey Baptiste
- Shuai Zhang vs. McCartney Kessler
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Peyton Stearns
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Emina Bektas
- Diane Parry vs. En-Shuo Liang
- Clara Burel vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Naomi Osaka
- Katie Volynets vs. Dalma Galfi
- Martina Trevisan vs. Taylor Townsend
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Laura Siegemund
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