Zhengzhou Open: Paolini breezes past lucky loser Uchijima to make second round

Italian Jasmine Paolini moved into the second round of the Zhengzhou Open by beating Japanese lucky loser Moyuka Uchijima 6-2, 6-3 at Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center on Monday.

Paolini, ranked No 31, will face No 6 seed Caroline Garcia next.

Zhengzhou WTA 500, other first-round results (Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center, hard, USD 780.637, most recent results first):

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Lin Zhu vs. Laura Siegemund
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Tatjana Maria
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Vera Zvonareva
• Petra Martic vs. Magda Linette
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Ellen Perez
• Kateryna Volodko vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Diana Shnaider
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Hanyu Guo (WC): 7-5, 6-1
• Donna Vekic beat Nao Hibino: 6-4, 6-2