China Open: Wei scores first career WTA main draw win
The Chinese woman will play No 13 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia in the next round
Sijia Wei, Roland-Garros 2024
Image Credit: Zuma / Panoramic
Chinese wildcard Sijia Wei won against Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-4, 7-6 (6) to reach the second round of the China Open on Thursday.
This was the first career WTA main draw win for Wei.
Wei, ranked No 140, will play No 13 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia next at the National Tennis Center in Beijing.
Beijing WTA 1000, other first-round matches (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8.955.610, most recent results first):
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat YeXin Ma (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Viktorija Golubic beat Xiyu Wang: 7-6 (5), 0-6, 6-3
- Nadia Podoroska beat Yufei Ren (WC): 6-4, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Arina Rodionova (Q): 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Sara Sorribes Tormo (Q) beat Xinyu Gao (WC): 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-5
- 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
- Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
- Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
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