Jiangxi Open: Ulrikke Eikeri advances to second round after Juvan retirement

Norwegian lucky loser Ulrikke Eikeri reached the second round of the Jiangxi Open when Slovenian Kaja Juvan retired on Tuesday night at Nanchang International Tennis Center.

Ulrikke Eikeri led 6-2, 1-2 when Juvan, ranked No 101, pulled out on Tuesday night at Nanchang International Tennis Center.

The Norwegian will play the winner of the match between German Laura Siegemund and Chinese Xinyu Wang, the No 4 seed, 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
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Valeria Savinykh vs. Magda Linette: tuesday
• Xiaodi You (Q) 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