Raducanu wins in straight sets to reach Seoul second round

Sixth seed Emma Raducanu scored another morale-boosting win at the WTA Hana Bank Korea Open in Seoul on Wednesday with a straight sets win over Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima.

Raducanu, who was knocked out of the US Open in the first round, scored a 6-2, 6-4 win over Uchijima in one hour and 18 minutes at the Seoul Olympic Park.

The Brit teen, now ranked No 77 in the world, will play former world No 15 Yanina Wickmayer next. The Belgian scored a 6-1, 6-4 over last week’s Chennai Open winner Linda Fruhvirtova 6-1, 6-4.

Seoul WTA 250, other first-round results (Seoul Olympic Park)

• Yanina Wickmayer beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-1, 6-4
• Anna Blinkova beat Varvara Gracheva (5): 6-4, 7-6 (1)
• Magda Linette (3) beat Arianne Hartono: 6-2, 7-5
• Tatjana Maria (7) beat Eugenie Bouchard: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5)
• Jelena Ostapenko (1) beat Boyoung Jeong (WC): 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2)
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (2) beat Asia Muhammad: 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
• Anastasia Gasanova beat Astra Sharma (Q): 7-5, 7-5
• Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (LL) beat Chloe Paquet: 6-2, 6-2
• Ankita Raina (Q) beat Maddison Inglis: 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
• Kristina Mladenovic beat Sohyun Park (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Rebecca Marino (8) beat Jana Fett (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Kimberly Birrell beat Priscilla Hon: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Lin Zhu (4) beat Su Jeong Jang: 6-3, 6-4
• Na-Lae Han (WC) beat Dayeon Back (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Lulu Sun (Q) beat Lizette Cabrera (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-2

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