Navarro handed upset loss by Zhang in China Open second round
Shuai Zhang won against Emma Navarro 6-4, 6-2 on Friday and will play the winner of the match between Belgian Greet Minnen and Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 28 seed, in the next round
Chinese wildcard Shuai Zhang advanced to the third round of the China Open by winning against American Emma Navarro, the No 6 seed, 6-4, 6-2 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Friday.
Zhang, the former world No 2, needed only 76 minutes to complete the win as she broke Navarro five times, averaging 71 percent on second-serve return points (15/21).
Shuai Zhang will face the winner of the match between Belgian Greet Minnen and Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 28 seed, next.
The 35-year-old Chinese defeated American McCartney Kessler (7-6 (5), 7-6 (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
- 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
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Katie Volynets
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
- Diane Parry vs. Jessica Pegula
- Paula Badosa vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Sofia Kenin vs. Diana Shnaider
- Katie Boulter vs. Taylor Townsend
- Greet Minnen vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Katerina Siniakova