Play continues in Tokyo and Guangzhou on Day 2 of this week’s WTA 500 and WTA 250 occasions…
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Britain’s 15-year outdated Mika Stojsavljevic was denied her first WTA Tour win after an agonising 6-4 6-7(9) 7-6(6) loss to Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima within the 1st-round of the Pan Pacific Open, whereas British No 1 Katie Boulter eased to a 6-1 6-4 win in opposition to Australia’s Priscilla Hon to achieve the Final 16 in Tokyo.
Stojsavljevic, who’s the reigning US Open ladies’ champion, held a 3-2 lead in opposition to Uchijima, ranked 57 on the earth, however was damaged 3 instances in a row to lose the primary set.
The Brit saved 3 match factors within the second, and went on to win the tight tiebreak to stage the match, and he or she took that momentum into the decider, breaking Uchijima to take a 5-2 lead, however the World No 633 missed her likelihood to serve out the match, permitting the 23-year-old Japanese to stage at 5-5.
Forcing the match breaker, Stojsavljevic saved 2 extra match factors, however Uchijima recovered to see out the win in 2 hours and 51 minutes, and strikes on to face prime seed Zheng Qinwen within the 2nd spherical.
28-year-old Boulter broke Hon, a qualifier, 3 instances within the first set, changing 100% of her break factors, and the second proved equally straight-forward because the Brit broke the Aussie, who’s ranked 184 locations beneath her, 2 extra instances.
Boulter, ranked 33 and the ninth seed in Tokyo, subsequent will play Japan’s Kyoka Okamura, one other fortunate loser who reversed her qualifying loss to Hailey Baptiste in Tokyo’s 1st-round.
Okamura had misplaced to the American, 6-3 7-5, within the ultimate qualifying spherical, however acquired into the primary draw as a fortunate loser and reversed the consequence, 7-6(4) 6-3.
The win was the 29-year-old Okamura’s first in a WTA major draw, and her first over a High 100 participant.
Former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, a wild-card, prolonged her good report in opposition to Wang Xinyu, beating the Tenth-seeded Chinese language, 6-1 6-4, in her 1st-round match on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old American, who gained the Australian Open in 2020 and was a French Open finalist the identical 12 months, gained her 4th straight match over Wang, her earlier victories over the Chinese language coming twice at Wimbledon, in 2021 and 2023, and at Auckland, New Zealand final 12 months.
Kenin beat Garbiñe Muguruza within the Melbourne Park Grand Slam singles ultimate in 2020, and misplaced to Iga Swiatek within the French Open ultimate a couple of months later.
After her Australian Open win, she achieved her highest rating of No 4, however a collection of accidents over the previous a number of years has seen her rating slip to her present No 155, and he or she additionally needed to withdraw from the 2021 US Open resulting from COVID-19.
Kenin advances to fulfill Denmark’s Clara Tauson in spherical 2, a fortunate loser who posted a 6-2 6-3 over wild-card Nao Hibino, her second win over the Japanese within the area of a month following their Hong Kong WTA 125 quarter-final assembly.
In a conflict between Japanese youngsters, 19-year-old qualifier Sayaka Ishii bested 18-year-old fortunate loser Sara Saito, 6-1 6-1, recording her first main-draw win on the Hologic WTA Tour to make the 2nd-round the place she’s going to meet one other qualifier, Zeynap Sonmez from Turkey, subsequent.
Finishing the 2nd-round line-up on Tuesday is American McCartney Kessler, who stormed previous Elisabetta Cocciaretto from Italy, 6-3 6-3, to face third seed Daria Kasatkina from Russia subsequent.
High seed Katerina Siniakova kicked off her Guangzhou Open with a simple win over qualifier Petra Martic
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High seeds Katerina Siniakova, Marie Bouzkova and Yuan Yue superior to the 2nd-round with straight set wins in China, however 4th-seeded Elina Avanesyan fell to Lucia Bronzetti.
Siniakova maintained her good report in opposition to Croatia qualifier Petra Martic, the Czech enhancing to 4-0 together with her 6-2 6-1 opening win, and she’s going to meet fortunate loser Alicia Parks subsequent, after the American defeated Hungarian Anna Bondar, 6-3 6-3.
Her Czech compatriot, Bouzkova, ended Osaka champion Suzan Lamens’s 7-match successful streak with a 6-3 6-1 win in her 1st-round match.
Bouzkova strikes on to face American qualifier Caroline Dolehide, who defeated fortunate loser Elena Pridankina from Russia, making her WTA main-draw debut after changing Britain’s Harriet Dart, 6-2 6-1.
House hope Yuan Yue, the No 3 seed, overturned a 2-5 first-set deficit to beat Belgian Greet Minnen, 7-6(2) 6-1, and can meet Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew subsequent, who reprised her qualifying defeat of German fortunate loser Ella Seidel, 6-1 2-6 6-2.
One other Chinese language, Wang Xiyu, the defending champion, defeated Arantxa Rus, 6-2 6-4, enhancing to 3-2 total in opposition to the Dutchwoman, and she’s going to now face native wild-card Wei Sijia in spherical 2.
Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, the seventh seed, moved previous qualifier Jana Fett from Croatia, 6-4 6-3, organising a contest with 19-year outdated Chinese language wild-card Shi Han, who overcame French qualifier Jessika Ponchet, 6-1 6-7(4), to publish her first WTA main-draw win.
Shi held her first 2 match factors at 5-4 within the second set, however wanted a decider to seal the win after 2 hours and 42 minutes.
Lucia Bronzetti toppled 4th-seeded Elina Avanesyan of Armenia, 6-1 6-4, and the Italian will tackle Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian for a spot within the quarter-finals.
France’s fifth seed Diane Parry, although, eased previous a fortunate loser, 31-year outdated American, Emina Bektas, 6-3 6-2, in her opener in simply 75 minutes to arrange a 2nd-round encounter with Olga Danilovic from Serbia.
In the meantime, American Bernarda Pera dispatched Alexandra Eala from the Philippines, 6-0 6-3, to arrange a gathering with wild-card Zhang Shuai, after the Chinese language upset Kamilla Rakhimova, the eighth seed from Russia, 6-2 7-1.
