Hong Kong Open: Ponchet through to second round
Jessika Ponchet defeated Xinyu Wang 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 on Monday afternoon and will play the winner of the match between Japanese qualifier Mei Yamaguchi and American Sofia Kenin in the next round
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Frenchwoman Jessika Ponchet beat Chinese Xinyu Wang, the No 4 seed, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Hong Kong Open at Victoria Park, Causeway Bay on Monday afternoon.
Ponchet, ranked No 106, will face the winner of the match between Japanese qualifier Mei Yamaguchi and American Sofia Kenin next.
Hong Kong WTA 250, other first-round results (Victoria Park, Causeway Bay, hard, USD 267.082, most recent results first):
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Heather Watson
- Mei Yamaguchi vs. Sofia Kenin
- Su Jeong Jang vs. Anastasia Zakharova
- Ana Bogdan vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Tatiana Prozorova
- Hong Yi Cody Wong vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Diana Shnaider vs. Kyoka Okamura
- Aoi Ito vs. Katie Boulter
- Nao Hibino vs. Jia-Jing Lu
- Xinyu Gao vs. Suzan Lamens
- Yue Yuan (6) beat Simona Halep (WC): 6-3, 6-3
- Han Shi (Q) beat Margarita Gasparyan: 6-4, 6-2
- Xiyu Wang beat Hina Inoue (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (2)
- Bernarda Pera (9) beat Sara Saito: 6-4, 6-4
- Priscilla Hon beat Eudice Wong Chong (WC): 6-3, 6-4
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