China Open: Minnen beats Andreeva to reach second round

Belgium’s Greet Minnen advanced to the second round of the China Open by winning against Russian Erika Andreeva 7-5, 6-2 on Wednesday.

Minnen, ranked No 94, will next play No 28 seed Anastasia Potapova at the National Tennis Center in Beijing.

Beijing WTA 1000, other first round matches (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8,955,610):

• Viktoriya Tomova beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-3, 6-3
• Sofia Kenin beat Ana Bogdan: 7-5, 6-2
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Yufei Ren vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Camila Osorio vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Meiling Wang vs. Jana Fett
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang
• YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Han Shi
• Harriet Dart vs. Clara Tauson
• Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Arina Rodionova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Xinxin Yao vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
• Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Yafan Wang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova
• Qiang Wang vs. Alycia Parks
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Shuai Zhang vs. McCartney Kessler
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Peyton Stearns
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Emina Bektas
• Diane Parry vs. En-Shuo Liang
• Clara Burel vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Naomi Osaka
• Katie Volynets vs. Dalma Galfi
• Martina Trevisan vs. Taylor Townsend
• Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Laura Siegemund
• Mai Hontama vs. Xinyu Wang

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