Wuhan Open: Putintseva beats Zhang in first round
Yulia Putintseva downed the Chinese veteran in straight sets on Tuesday and will face Croat Donna Vekic, the No 15 seed, in the next round
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Kazakh Yulia Putintseva won against Chinese Zhang Shuai 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Wuhan Open at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center on Tuesday.
Putintseva, ranked No 35, will play Croat Donna Vekic, the No 15 seed, next.
Wuhan WTA 1000, other first-round results (Optics Valley International Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.221.715, most recent results first):
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Xiyu Wang
- Paula Badosa vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Katie Boulter
- Amanda Anisimova beat Cristina Bucsa (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Viktoriya Tomova beat Ashlyn Krueger: 1-6, 7-6 (8), 7-5
- Katerina Siniakova beat Alexandra Eala (WC): 6-3, 6-1
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Sofia Kenin: 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
- Jaqueline Cristian (WC) beat Camila Osorio (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Magda Linette beat Liudmila Samsonova (11): 6-2, 6-2
- Magdalena Frech beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-0, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Anna Bondar (Q): 6-1, 6-3
- Donna Vekic beat Elise Mertens: 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
- Xinyu Wang beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-4, 6-0
- Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Diane Parry: 6-4, 7-5
- Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
- Erika Andreeva (LL) beat Dayana Yastremska: 7-5, 6-4
- Yue Yuan beat Clara Burel (LL): 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez beat Diana Shnaider (12): 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-3
- Anastasia Potapova beat Katie Volynets (WC): 5-7, 6-3, 7-5
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (9) beat Madison Keys: 7-6 (7), 6-2
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