Washington Open: Wang ousts Pliskova in first round
Yafan Wang won against Karolina Pliskova 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 on Monday evening and will play the winner of the match between American qualifier Hailey Baptiste and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 6 seed, in the next round
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Chinese Yafan Wang won against Karolina Pliskova 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 to advance to the second round of the Washington Open at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center on Monday evening.
Wang, ranked No 73, will face the winner of the match between American qualifier Hailey Baptiste and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 6 seed, next.
Washington WTA 500, other first-round results (William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):
- Paula Badosa vs. Sofia Kenin
- Clervie Ngounoue vs. Peyton Stearns
- Taylor Townsend vs. Anastasia Potapova
- McCartney Kessler vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Katie Volynets vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Elise Mertens vs. Emma Raducanu
- Sloane Stephens vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Shelby Rogers vs. Robin Montgomery
- Caroline Dolehide beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-1, 3-6, 6-4
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (7) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
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