Home favourite Zheng Qinwen cruises into last 16 in Wuhan
Qinwen Zheng won against Jaqueline Cristian 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday and will play Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the next round
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Fifth seed Qinwen Zheng beat Romanian wildcard Jaqueline Cristian 6-2, 6-4 to reach the last 16 of the Wuhan Open in front of an ecstatic home crowd at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center on Wednesday.
The Olympic champion will play Canadian Leylah Fernandez next.
In the previous round of the Wuhan tournament, Cristian, ranked No 75, defeated Colombian qualifier Camila Osorio (4-6, 6-2, 6-3).
Wuhan WTA 1000, other second-round results (Optics Valley International Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.221.715, most recent results first):
- Yue Yuan vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Erika Andreeva: wednesday
- Jessica Pegula (2) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-2, 2-0 ret.
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Xinyu Wang beat Lucia Bronzetti (LL): 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (9) beat Veronika Kudermetova: 6-1, 6-4
- Coco Gauff (4) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez beat Kamilla Rakhimova (LL): 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (4)
- Magdalena Frech beat Emma Navarro (6): 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Anna Kalinskaya (10): 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-1
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-4, 6-4
- Magda Linette beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 5-2 ret.
- Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Barbora Krejcikova (7): 6-3, 7-5
- Yulia Putintseva beat Donna Vekic (15): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina (8) beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-4, 1-6, 6-1
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