Zhengzhou Open: Siegemund books spot in second round

German qualifier Laura Siegemund advanced to the second round of the Zhengzhou Open by defeating Chinese Lin Zhu 6-2, 6-3 at Zhongyuan Tennis Training Base Management Center on Tuesday.

Siegemund, ranked No 113, will play Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 11 seed, next.

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

• Timea Babos vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Liudmila Samsonova beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-3
• Petra Martic beat Magda Linette: 7-6 (5), 6-1
• Vera Zvonareva (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (9): 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• 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