Clara Tauson advanced to the second round of the China Open after defeating Harriet Dart 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Thursday evening.
Currently ranked No 72, Tauson will next face No 3 seed Jasmine Paolini.
Here are the other first-round results from the Beijing WTA 1000 at the National Tennis Center on a hard court with a prize money of USD 8,955,610 (most recent results listed first):
- Yafan Wang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
- Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
- YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu: Thursday
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang: Thursday
- Nadia Podoroska defeated Yufei Ren (WC): 6-4, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto defeated Arina Rodionova (Q): 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo: Thursday
- Kamilla Rakhimova (LL) defeated Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Jana Fett (LL) defeated Meiling Wang (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Camila Osorio defeated Ajla Tomljanovic: 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Moyuka Uchijima defeated Han Shi (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Cristina Bucsa defeated Xinxin Yao (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- Rebecca Sramkova (Q) defeated Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 6-0
- Hailey Baptiste (Q) defeated Varvara Gracheva: 6-0, 6-3
- Alycia Parks (Q) defeated Qiang Wang: 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Peyton Stearns defeated Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-2, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan defeated Emina Bektas (LL): 6-2, 7-5
- Diane Parry defeated En-Shuo Liang (Q): 4-6, 6-0, 6-0
- Shuai Zhang (WC) defeated McCartney Kessler: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1)
- Katie Volynets defeated Dalma Galfi (Q): 7-5, 6-1
- Clara Burel defeated Tamara Korpatsch (LL): 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka defeated Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-2
- Taylor Townsend defeated Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
- Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) defeated Laura Siegemund: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Xinyu Wang defeated Mai Hontama (LL): 6-1, 6-3
- Viktoriya Tomova defeated Lesia Tsurenko: 6-3, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin defeated Ana Bogdan: 7-5, 6-2
- Greet Minnen defeated Erika Andreeva: 7-5, 6-2
