Jiangxi Open: Birrell battles into second round
Kimberly Birrell won against Sijia Wei 7-5, 7-5 on Monday night. She’ll face the winner of the match between Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the top seed, and Japanese Nao Hibino in the next round
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Australian Kimberly Birrell defeated Chinese qualifier Sijia Wei 7-5, 7-5 to move into the second round of the Jiangxi Open at Nanchang International Tennis Center on Monday night.
Birrell, ranked No 102, will play the winner of the match between Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the top seed, and Japanese Nao Hibino next.
Nanchang WTA 250, other first-round results (Nanchang International Tennis Center, USD 259.303, most recent results first):
- Laura Siegemund vs. Xinyu Wang
- Yuhan Wang vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Viktoria Hruncakova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Kathinka von Deichmann
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Hanyu Guo
- Ulrikke Eikeri vs. Kaja Juvan
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Valeria Savinykh vs. Magda Linette
- Anna Blinkova vs. Xiaodi You
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Nao Hibino
- Diana Shnaider vs. Lin Zhu
- Sara Sorribes Tormo (8) beat Xinyu Jiang (WC): 6-4, 6-0
- Camila Osorio beat YeXin Ma (Q): 6-1, 6-0
- Amina Anshba (LL) beat Elina Avanesyan: 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Vera Zvonareva beat Arianne Hartono: 6-1, 6-2
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