China Open: Cocciaretto through to second round to face Mertens
The Italian beat Arina Rodionova 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the first round on Thursday
Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Roland-Garros, 2023 (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto moved into the second round of the China Open by winning against Australian qualifier Arina Rodionova 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday.
Cocciaretto, ranked No 55, will play No 24 seed Elise Mertens next at the National Tennis Center in Beijing.
Beijing WTA 1000, other first-round matches (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8,955,610):
- Nadia Podoroska beat Yufei Ren (WC): 6-4, 6-2
- Clara Tauson beat Harriet Dart: 5-7, 6-4, 6-1
- Kamilla Rakhimova (LL) beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Jana Fett (LL) beat Meiling Wang (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Camila Osorio beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Moyuka Uchijima beat Han Shi (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Cristina Bucsa beat Xinxin Yao (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 6-0
- Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-0, 6-3
- Alycia Parks (Q) beat Qiang Wang: 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Peyton Stearns beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-2, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan beat Emina Bektas (LL): 6-2, 7-5
- Diane Parry beat En-Shuo Liang (Q): 4-6, 6-0, 6-0
- Shuai Zhang (WC) beat McCartney Kessler: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1)
- Katie Volynets beat Dalma Galfi (Q): 7-5, 6-1
- Clara Burel beat Tamara Korpatsch (LL): 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-2
- Taylor Townsend beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
- Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Xinyu Wang beat Mai Hontama (LL): 6-1, 6-3
- Viktoriya Tomova beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-3, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin beat Ana Bogdan: 7-5, 6-2
- Greet Minnen beat Erika Andreeva: 7-5, 6-2
- Yafan Wang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
- Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
- YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang
- Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
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