Hong Kong Open: Hon through to second round

Australian Priscilla Hon beat wildcard Eudice Wong Chong 7-5, 7-5 to reach the second round of the Hong Kong Open at Olympic Park Tennis Center on Tuesday night.

Hon, ranked No 183, will face the winner of the match between Kazakh Yulia Putintseva and Russian Anna Blinkova, the No 5 seed, next.

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

• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Daria Saville vs. Elise Mertens
• Sofya Lansere vs. Hong Yi Cody Wong
• Anna Danilina vs. Magdalena Frech
• Ho Ching Wu vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Alina Korneeva vs. Valeria Savinykh
• Xinyu Wang vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Jana Fett
• Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Peyton Stearns
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Martina Trevisan vs. Cristina Bucsa: tuesday
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Anna Blinkova: tuesday
• 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)