Tokyo Open: Katie Boulter cruises past Hon to reach second round

No 9 seed Katie Boulter beat Australian qualifier Priscilla Hon 6-1, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Tokyo Open at the Ariake Coliseum.

Boulter, ranked No 33, will play Japanese lucky loser Kyoka Okamura next.

Tokyo WTA 500, other first-round results (Ariake Coliseum, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):

• Moyuka Uchijima beat Mika Stojsavljevic (WC): 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (6)
• Clara Tauson (LL) beat Nao Hibino (WC): 6-2, 6-3
• Kyoka Okamura beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Sayaka Ishii (Q) beat Sara Saito (LL): 6-1, 6-1
• McCartney Kessler beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 6-3
• Sofia Kenin (WC) beat Xinyu Wang (10): 6-1, 6-4
• Bianca Andreescu (WC) beat Mei Yamaguchi (Q): 7-5, 6-3
• Leylah Fernandez (8) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (LL): 5-7, 6-2, 5-2 ret.
• Zeynep Sonmez (Q) beat Magdalena Frech (7): 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Varvara Gracheva beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Veronika Kudermetova: 7-6 (3), 6-3