Prague Open: Wang moves into second round
Qiang Wang edged out Rebecca Peterson 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Monday and will face the winner of the match between Slovenian qualifier Dalila Jakupovic and Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck, the No 6 seed, in the next round
Chinese qualifier Qiang Wang reached the second round of the Prague Open by edging out Swede Rebecca Peterson 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) at TK Sparta Praha on Monday.
Wang, ranked No 141, will face the winner of the match between Slovenian qualifier Dalila Jakupovic and Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck, the No 6 seed, next.
Prague WTA 250, other first-round results (TK Sparta Praha, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):
- Anna Blinkova vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Natalia Vikhlyantseva vs. Linda Noskova
- Alize Cornet vs. Anastasia Zakharova
- Oksana Selekhmeteva vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Ylena In-Albon vs. Dominika Salkova
- Daria Snigur vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Xinyu Wang vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Barbora Palicova vs. Lucie Havlickova
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Ekaterine Gorgodze
- Tereza Martincova vs. Chloe Paquet
- Dalila Jakupovic vs. Alison Van Uytvanck
- Vitalia Diatchenko vs. Lin Zhu
- Elise Mertens vs. Magda Linette: monday
- Nao Hibino (LL) beat Mihaela Buzarnescu: 6-2, 6-2
- Marie Bouzkova (8) beat Sinja Kraus (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (2)
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