Hong Kong Open: Third seed Mertens advances to second round
Elise Mertens won against Daria Saville 6-1, 6-4 on Wednesday night and will face the winner of the match between Russian qualifier Sofya Lansere and wildcard Hong Yi Cody Wong in the next round
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Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 3 seed, won against Australian qualifier Daria Saville 6-1, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Hong Kong Open.
Mertens, ranked No 41, will face the winner of the match between Russian qualifier Sofya Lansere and wildcard Hong Yi Cody Wong next.
Hong Kong WTA 250, other first-round results:
- Sofya Lansere vs. Hong Yi Cody Wong
- Alina Korneeva vs. Valeria Savinykh: wednesday
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: wednesday
- Magdalena Frech beat Anna Danilina (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Ho Ching Wu (WC): 6-1, 6-0
- Xinyu Wang (4) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-2, 4-1 ret.
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Jana Fett: 6-0, 6-0
- Linda Fruhvirtova beat Peyton Stearns (7): 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- 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)
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