Korea Open: Lys into second round

German Eva Lys moved into the second round of the Korea Open by winning against Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-2, 6-4 at the Olympic Park Tennis Centre in Seoul on Tuesday.

Lys, ranked No 119, will play the winner of the match between American Kayla Day and No 4 seed Marie Bouzkova 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: tuesday
• Su Jeong Jang beat Sofia Kenin (5): 6-1, 6-4
• 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