China qinwen zhengwhen the Japanese Misaki Doi prevailed this Monday, by 6-2 and 6-4, she will be the rival of the Spaniards Paula Badosafirst favorite, in the contest of Tokyo, a WTA500on the hard court.
Zheng, 19 years old and 36 in the WTA rankings, was enough for four breaks of her rival’s serve (two in each set, giving up hers in the second on one occasion) to advance to the second round, where Badosa is (n .1 of the contest) and Garbine Muguruza (n.3) directly by being among the first four leaders of the series.
Muguruza’s opponent in the second round is the Greek Despina Papamichail (n.213 WTA), who defeated the Chinese Xiaodi You, 6-4, 6-2.
In other matches on the first day, Belgian Elise Mertens, Chinese Xinyu Wang, American Claire Liu and Croatian Petra Martic, respectively, won against Chinese Qiang Eang (6-0, 6-3), the Australian Ellen Pérez (7-5, 1-6, 6-4), American Alison Riske-Amritraj (6-2, 6-3) and Japanese Rina Saigo (6-1, 6-1).
Source: La Verdad
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