Thailand Open: Watson through to second round, takes out second seed Putintseva
Heather Watson edged out Yulia Putintseva 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (5) on Tuesday. She’ll face the winner of the match between Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Na-Lae Han in the next round
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Heather Watson reached the second round of the Thailand Open by edging out Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the second seed, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (5) at the True Arena Hua Hin on Tuesday.
Watson, ranked No 160, will face the winner of the match between Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Na-Lae Han next.
Hua Hin WTA 250, other first-round results (True Arena Hua Hin, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Harriet Dart
- En-Shuo Liang vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Bethanie Mattek-Sands
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Anastasia Zakharova: tuesday
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Na-Lae Han: tuesday
- Anna Kalinskaya (4) beat Ekaterina Makarova (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Tatjana Maria (6) beat Alexandra Eala (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Nao Hibino beat Valeria Savinykh (Q): 6-0, 6-2
- Mirjam Bjorklund beat Lanlana Tararudee (WC): 6-2, 6-4
- Tamara Zidansek beat Astra Sharma (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Lin Zhu beat Xiyu Wang (3): 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
- Xinyu Wang (7) beat Joanne Zuger (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Su Jeong Jang beat Katie Boulter: 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Ysaline Bonaventure: 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
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