Hungarian Grand Prix: Zhang through to second round
Shuai Zhang defeated Ekaterine Gorgodze 7-5, 6-1 on Wednesday. She’ll face Serb Aleksandra Krunic in the next round
Chinese Shuai Zhang, the No 6 seed, defeated Georgian Ekaterine Gorgodze 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Hungarian Grand Prix at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest on Wednesday.
Zhang, ranked No 37, will face Serb Aleksandra Krunic next.
Budapest WTA 250, other first-round matches (Római Tennis Academy, clay, EUR 203.024, most recent results first):
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Xiyu Wang: wednesday
- Katerina Siniakova beat Anhelina Kalinina (4): 6-3 ret.
- Laura Pigossi (LL) beat Rebecca Peterson: 7-5, 6-3
- Ana Bogdan beat Panna Udvardy: 6-2, 5-7, 6-0
- Yulia Putintseva (3) beat Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-4, 6-1
- Despina Papamichail (Q) beat Dalma Galfi: 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Anna Bondar (9) beat Jesika Maleckova (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Reka-Luca Jani (WC): 7-6 (7), 6-2
- Martina Trevisan (2) beat Natalia Szabanin (WC): 2-6, 6-2, 6-0
- Aleksandra Krunic beat Laura Siegemund: 6-3, 6-4
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich (5) beat Fanny Stollar (Q): 6-3, 0-6, 6-3
- Kateryna Baindl (Q) beat Timea Babos (WC): 6-4, 6-3
- Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Marina Bassols Ribera (LL): 6-2, 7-5
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (7): 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Carolina M. Alves (Q): 6-4, 6-1
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