China Open: Mertens books spot in third round
The seed No 24 defeated Elisabetta Cocciaretto on Saturday. She’ll face Spaniard Cristina Bucsa in the next round
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Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 24 seed, won against Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 to reach the third round of the China Open at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Saturday.
Mertens, ranked No 29, will play Spaniard Cristina Bucsa next.
Cocciaretto, ranked No 55, beat Australian qualifier Arina Rodionova (4-6, 6-4, 6-3) in the previous round of the Beijing tournament.
Beijing WTA 1000, other second-round results (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8.955.610, most recent results first):
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Donna Vekic
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Madison Keys vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Yue Yuan vs. Karolina Muchova
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Lulu Sun
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Sijia Wei vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Camila Osorio vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Jana Fett (LL): 6-1, 6-2
- Magda Linette (31) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Jasmine Paolini (3) beat Clara Tauson: 1-6, 7-5, 6-4
- Cristina Bucsa beat Liudmila Samsonova (11): 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
- Coco Gauff (4) beat Clara Burel: 7-5, 6-3
- Magdalena Frech (23) beat Alycia Parks (Q): 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
- Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (22): 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka beat Yulia Putintseva (21): 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Jessica Pegula (2) beat Diane Parry: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
- Katie Volynets beat Marta Kostyuk (14): 7-5, 6-3
- Peyton Stearns beat Leylah Fernandez (20): 7-5, 6-2
- Elina Avanesyan beat Caroline Dolehide (33): 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (15) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5)
- Veronika Kudermetova (32) beat Xinyu Wang: 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
- Katie Boulter (26) beat Taylor Townsend: 6-4, 6-4
- Diana Shnaider (12) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-2, 6-3
- Shuai Zhang (WC) beat Emma Navarro (6): 6-4, 6-2
- Greet Minnen beat Anastasia Potapova (28): 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
- Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Katerina Siniakova (27): 6-2, 6-2
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