China Open: Wildcard Ren goes down to Podoroska

Argentinian Nadia Podoroska defeated Chinese wildcard Yufei Ren 6-4, 6-2 to reach the second round of the China Open at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Thursday.

Podoroska, ranked No 66, will face No 25 seed Dayana Yastremska next.

Beijing WTA 1000, other first-round matches (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8,955,610):

• Yafan Wang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
• YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang: thursday
• Arina Rodionova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: thursday
• Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo: thursday
• Harriet Dart vs. Clara Tauson: thursday
• 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