Singapore Open: Baptiste fights back to beat Zarazua and reach second round
Hailey Baptiste won against Renata Zarazua 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 on Tuesday night. She’ll play Australian wildcard Kimberly Birrell in the next round
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American Hailey Baptiste moved into the second round of the Singapore Open by beating Mexican Renata Zarazua 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 at the Kallang Tennis Hub.
Baptiste, ranked No 93, will face Australian wildcard Kimberly Birrell next.
Singapore WTA 250, other first-round results (Kallang Tennis Hub, USD 275.094, most recent results first):
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Tatjana Maria
- Taylor Townsend vs. Elise Mertens
- Jil Teichmann vs. Harriet Dart
- Rebecca Marino vs. Xinyu Wang
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Olivia Gadecki
- Maria Timofeeva vs. Xiyu Wang: tuesday
- Kimberly Birrell beat Polina Kudermetova (5): 6-3, 6-2
- Simona Waltert (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-2, 6-3
- Dominika Salkova (Q) beat Erika Andreeva: 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya (1) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
- Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Q) beat Sijia Wei (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Cristina Bucsa beat Emma Raducanu (7): 5-7, 7-5, 7-5
- Maya Joint (Q) beat Alycia Parks: 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
- Ann Li beat Daria Saville: 6-3, 6-1
- Camila Osorio (6) beat Bernarda Pera: 6-1, 6-7, 6-3
