China Open: Boulter advances to third round

No 26 seed Katie Boulter reached the third round of the China Open by winning against American Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-4 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Friday.

Boulter, ranked No 34, will play the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Clara Burel and American Coco Gauff, the No 4 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Beijing tournament, Townsend, ranked No 52, defeated Italian Martina Trevisan (6-2, 4-6, 6-3).

Beijing WTA 1000, other second-round results (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8.955.610, most recent results first):

• Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Camila Osorio vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Jana Fett
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Donna Vekic
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Magda Linette
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Clara Tauson
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Yue Yuan vs. Karolina Muchova
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elise Mertens
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Sijia Wei vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Madison Keys vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Lulu Sun
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
• Clara Burel vs. Coco Gauff
• Magdalena Frech vs. Alycia Parks
• Naomi Osaka vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Diane Parry vs. Jessica Pegula
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Katie Volynets
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Paula Badosa vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Xinyu Wang
• 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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