Jiangxi Open: Hibino beats top seed Haddad Maia, moves into second round
Nao Hibino beat Beatriz Haddad Maia 7-6 (2), 6-3 on Tuesday night. She’ll face Australian Kimberly Birrell in the next round
Nao Hibino,
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Japanese Nao Hibino reached the second round of the Jiangxi Open by defeating Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the top seed, 7-6 (2), 6-3 at Nanchang International Tennis Center on Tuesday night.
Hibino, ranked No 93, will play Australian Kimberly Birrell 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
- Viktoria Hruncakova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich: tuesday
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Hanyu Guo: tuesday
- Ulrikke Eikeri (LL) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-2, 1-2 ret.
- Valeria Savinykh vs. Magda Linette: tuesday
- Xiaodi You (Q) beat Anna Blinkova (6): 6-1, 6-1
- 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
