Hailey Baptiste, an American qualifier, advanced to the first round of the China Open after defeating Varvara Gracheva from France with a score of 6-0, 6-3 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Wednesday.
Baptiste, ranked 111th, is set to face the 10th seed Anna Kalinskaya in the next match.
Results from the Beijing WTA 1000 tournament at the National Tennis Center on hard court with a prize money of USD 8,955,610 are as follows (most recent matches listed first):
- Yafan Wang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
- Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
- YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang
- Yufei Ren vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Harriet Dart vs. Clara Tauson
- Arina Rodionova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Kimberly Birrell vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Camila Osorio vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Meiling Wang vs. Jana Fett
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Han Shi
- Xinxin Yao vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova: Wednesday
- Alycia Parks (Q) defeated Qiang Wang with a score of 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Peyton Stearns defeated Jessica Bouzas Maneiro with a score of 6-2, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan defeated Emina Bektas (LL) with a score of 6-2, 7-5
- Diane Parry defeated En-Shuo Liang (Q) with a score of 4-6, 6-0, 6-0
- Shuai Zhang (WC) defeated McCartney Kessler with a score of 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1)
- Katie Volynets defeated Dalma Galfi (Q) with a score of 7-5, 6-1
- Clara Burel defeated Tamara Korpatsch (LL) with a score of 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka defeated Lucia Bronzetti with a score of 6-3, 6-2
- Taylor Townsend defeated Martina Trevisan with a score of 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
- Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) defeated Laura Siegemund with a score of 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Xinyu Wang defeated Mai Hontama (LL) with a score of 6-1, 6-3
- Viktoriya Tomova defeated Lesia Tsurenko with a score of 6-3, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin defeated Ana Bogdan with a score of 7-5, 6-2
- Greet Minnen defeated Erika Andreeva with a score of 7-5, 6-2
