Zhengzhou Open: Samsonova reaches second round
Liudmila Samsonova defeated Tatjana Maria 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Chinese Lin Zhu and German qualifier Laura Siegemund in the next round
Liudmila Samsonova US Open 2023 – Zuma / Panoramic
Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 11 seed, reached the second round of the Zhengzhou Open by beating German Tatjana Maria 6-3, 6-3 at Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center on Tuesday.
Samsonova, ranked No 16, will face the winner of the match between Chinese Lin Zhu and German qualifier Laura Siegemund next.
Zhengzhou WTA 500, other first-round results (Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center, hard, USD 780.637, most recent results first):
- Timea Babos vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Tamara Korpatsch vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
- Lin Zhu vs. Laura Siegemund: tuesday
- Petra Martic beat Magda Linette: 7-6 (5), 6-1
- Vera Zvonareva (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (9): 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Ellen Perez (Q): 6-1, 6-3
- Qinwen Zheng beat Kateryna Volodko (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Lesia Tsurenko (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (LL): 6-4, 6-2
- Jasmine Paolini beat Moyuka Uchijima (LL): 6-2, 6-3
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Hanyu Guo (WC): 7-5, 6-1
- Donna Vekic (10) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-4, 6-2
