Seoul Open: Birrell makes second round
Kimberly Birrell edged out Priscilla Hon 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Monday night. She’ll face the winner of the match between German Tatjana Maria, the No 7 seed, and Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in the next round
Kimberly Birrell advanced to the second round of the Seoul Open by edging out Priscilla Hon 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 at the Seoul Olympic Park on Monday night.
Birrell, ranked No 309, will face the winner of the match between German Tatjana Maria, the No 7 seed, and Canadian Eugenie Bouchard next.
Seoul WTA 250, other first-round results (Seoul Olympic Park, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Anna Blinkova
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Emma Raducanu
- Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Yanina Wickmayer
- Magda Linette vs. Arianne Hartono
- Tatjana Maria vs. Eugenie Bouchard
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Boyoung Jeong
- Asia Muhammad vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Chloe Paquet vs. Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva
- Anastasia Gasanova vs. Astra Sharma
- Maddison Inglis vs. Ankita Raina
- Kristina Mladenovic vs. Sohyun Park
- Jana Fett vs. Rebecca Marino
- Lin Zhu (4) beat Su Jeong Jang: 6-3, 6-4
- Na-Lae Han (WC) beat Dayeon Back (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Lulu Sun beat Lizette Cabrera (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-2