Korea Open: Top seed Pegula eases into second round

American Jessica Pegula, the top seed, defeated Slovak Viktoria Hruncakova 6-2, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Korea Open at the Olympic Park Tennis Centre in Seoul on Tuesday.

Pegula, ranked No 4, will play American Ashlyn Krueger 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: tuesday
• Laura Pigossi vs. Emina Bektas: tuesday
• Su Jeong Jang beat Sofia Kenin (5): 6-1, 6-4
• Eva Lys beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-2, 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