Korea Open: Watson makes second round
Heather Watson won against Jia-Jing Lu 6-4, 6-4 on Monday and will face the winner of the match between Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 5 seed, in the next round
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Qualifier Heather Watson advanced to the second round of the Korea Open by defeating Chinese qualifier Jia-Jing Lu 6-4, 6-4 at the Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul on Monday.
Watson, ranked No 183, will face the winner of the match between Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 5 seed, next.
Seoul WTA 500, other first-round results (Olympic Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):
- Tatjana Maria vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Su Jeong Jang
- Polina Kudermetova vs. Priscilla Hon
- Peyton Stearns vs. Emma Raducanu
- Sloane Stephens vs. Hailey Baptiste
- Arantxa Rus vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Varvara Lepchenko
- Dayeon Back vs. Carol Zhao: monday
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Shuai Zhang: 6-4, 6-3
- Yue Yuan (8) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
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