Korea Open: Kenin stunned by Jang in first round

Su Jeong Jang moved into the second round of the Korea Open by defeating American Sofia Kenin, the No 5 seed, 6-1, 6-4 at the Olympic Park Tennis Centre in Seoul on Tuesday night.

Jang, ranked No 162, will play the winner of the match between Brazilian Laura Pigossi and American Emina Bektas next.

Korea Open WTA 250, other first-round results, most recent results first):

• Dayeon Back vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Kayla Day vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Sachia Vickery vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Jessica Pegula vs. Viktoria Hruncakova
• Laura Pigossi vs. Emina Bektas
• Eva Lys vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: tuesday
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-2, 6-4
• Kaja Juvan beat Katie Boulter (8): 6-4, 6-4
• Arantxa Rus (7) beat Na-Lae Han (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Yue Yuan beat Arianne Hartono (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Polina Kudermetova beat Alycia Parks (6): 3-6, 6-1, 6-0
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (3) beat Mai Hontama: 6-3, 6-1
• Kathinka von Deichmann beat Irina Khromacheva (LL): 5-7, 6-4, 3-0 ret.
• Yanina Wickmayer beat En-Shuo Liang (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Claire Liu beat Yeonwoo Ku (Q): 6-3, 6-3