Hong Kong Open: Fruhvirtova reaches second round

Linda Fruhvirtova moved into the second round of the Hong Kong Open by edging out American Peyton Stearns, the No 7 seed, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 at Seul Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul on Tuesday.

Fruhvirtova, ranked No 88, will play the winner of the match between qualifier Alina Korneeva and Valeria Savinykh next.

Seoul WTA 250, other first-round results (Seul Olympic Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):

• Daria Saville vs. Elise Mertens
• Sofya Lansere vs. Hong Yi Cody Wong
• Alina Korneeva vs. Valeria Savinykh
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Anna Danilina vs. Magdalena Frech
• Ho Ching Wu vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Xinyu Wang vs. Elina Avanesyan: tuesday
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Jana Fett: 6-0, 6-0
• Leylah Fernandez beat Victoria Azarenka (1): 2-6, 6-3 ret.
• Martina Trevisan (6) beat Cristina Bucsa: 7-5, 6-2
• Anna Blinkova (5) beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-4, 2-6, 5-1 ret.
• Priscilla Hon beat Eudice Wong Chong (WC): 7-5, 7-5
• Kamilla Rakhimova beat Varvara Gracheva (8): 6-3, 6-2
• Mirra Andreeva beat Dayana Yastremska: 6-4, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Xiyu Wang: 6-4, 7-6 (7)