Jiangxi Open: Fernandez reaches second round
Leylah Fernandez beat Hanyu Guo 6-1, 6-3 on Tuesday night and will play Chinese qualifier Xiaodi You in the next round
Leylah Fernandez USO 2023 Zuma / Panoramic
Canadian Leylah Fernandez moved into the second round of the Jiangxi Open by winning against Chinese wildcard Hanyu Guo 6-1, 6-3 at Nanchang International Tennis Center on Tuesday night.
Fernandez, ranked No 43, will play Chinese qualifier Xiaodi You 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
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Kathinka von Deichmann
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Kamilla Rakhimova: tuesday
- Viktoria Hruncakova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich: tuesday
- Ulrikke Eikeri (LL) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-2, 1-2 ret.
- Valeria Savinykh beat Magda Linette (2): 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3)
- Xiaodi You beat Anna Blinkova (6): 6-1, 6-1
- Nao Hibino beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (1): 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Diana Shnaider beat Lin Zhu (5): 6-4, 6-0
- Kimberly Birrell beat Sijia Wei (Q): 7-5, 7-5
- 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
