China Open: Paolini comes from behind to reach third round
Jasmine Paolini edged out Clara Tauson 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 on Saturday night and will play the winner of the match between Japanese Moyuka Uchijima and Pole Magda Linette, the No 31 seed, in the next round
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Italian Jasmine Paolini, the No 3 seed, advanced to the third round of the China Open by edging out Dane Clara Tauson 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Saturday.
Tauson surprised Paolini by taking the opener quickly with three break-point conversions, however, the Italian fought back to take the following two sets.
Paolini, ranked No 5, will play the winner of the match between Japanese Moyuka Uchijima and Pole Magda Linette, the No 31 seed, next.
Tauson, ranked No 72, won against Harriet Dart (5-7, 6-4, 6-1) 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
- Yue Yuan vs. Karolina Muchova
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Lulu Sun
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Nadia Podoroska
- 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
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Magda Linette
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elise Mertens
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Cristina Bucsa
- 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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