Zhengzhou Open: Martic books spot in second round

Croat Petra Martic reached the second round of the Zhengzhou Open by winning against Pole Magda Linette 7-6 (5), 6-1 at Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center on Tuesday night.

Martic, ranked No 45, will play No 7 seed Barbora Krejcikova next.

Zhengzhou WTA 500, other first-round results (Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center, hard, USD 780.637, most recent results first):

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Lin Zhu vs. Laura Siegemund
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Tatjana Maria
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Vera Zvonareva: tuesday
• Anhelina Kalinina beat Ellen Perez (Q): 6-1, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng beat Kateryna Volodko (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (LL): 6-4, 6-2
• Jasmine Paolini beat Moyuka Uchijima (LL): 6-2, 6-3
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Hanyu Guo (WC): 7-5, 6-1
• Donna Vekic (10) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-4, 6-2