Spanish player Paula Badosa, seeded No 8, emerged victorious against Russian player Diana Shnaider with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, advancing to the second round of the Ningbo Open at the Yinzhou Tennis Center on Monday afternoon.
Badosa, currently ranked No 14, is set to face Chinese wildcard Xiyu Wang in her next match.
Other first-round results of the Ningbo WTA 250 at the Yinzhou Tennis Center on hard court with a total prize money of USD 922,573 (most recent results listed first):
- Yue Yuan vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Karolina Muchova vs. Olivia Gadecki
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Xiaodi You
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Katie Boulter vs. Sara Errani
- Yafan Wang vs. Ella Seidel
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Magda Linette
- Mirra Andreeva defeated Varvara Lepchenko (Q) with a score of 6-2, 6-0
- Xiyu Wang defeated Kamilla Rakhimova (Q) with a score of 6-2, 6-0
- Tamara Korpatsch (LL) defeated Anna Bondar (LL) with a score of 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 6-4
- Yulia Putintseva defeated Caroline Dolehide with a score of 6-2, 6-0
