Begu, ranked No 103, won against Chinese wildcard YeXin Ma (1-6, 6-4, 6-1) in the previous round of the Beijing tournament.

Beijing WTA 1000, other second-round results (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8.955.610, most recent results first):

• Qinwen Zheng (5) beat Kamilla Rakhimova (LL): 6-1, 6-1
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Donna Vekic: saturday
• Nadia Podoroska beat Dayana Yastremska (25): 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-2
• Madison Keys (18) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Lulu Sun (29): 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Karolina Muchova beat Yue Yuan (30): 6-3, 6-1
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Barbora Krejcikova (7): 1-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Sijia Wei (WC): 7-5, 6-4
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Amanda Anisimova (34) beat Camila Osorio: 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Jana Fett (LL): 6-1, 6-2
• Magda Linette (31) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini (3) beat Clara Tauson: 1-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Elise Mertens (24) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3
• Cristina Bucsa beat Liudmila Samsonova (11): 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (4) beat Clara Burel: 7-5, 6-3
• Magdalena Frech (23) beat Alycia Parks (Q): 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
• Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (22): 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
• Naomi Osaka beat Yulia Putintseva (21): 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Jessica Pegula (2) beat Diane Parry: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Katie Volynets beat Marta Kostyuk (14): 7-5, 6-3
• Peyton Stearns beat Leylah Fernandez (20): 7-5, 6-2
• Elina Avanesyan beat Caroline Dolehide (33): 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
• Paula Badosa (15) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-2
• Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5)
• Veronika Kudermetova (32) beat Xinyu Wang: 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Katie Boulter (26) beat Taylor Townsend: 6-4, 6-4
• Diana Shnaider (12) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-2, 6-3
• Shuai Zhang (WC) beat Emma Navarro (6): 6-4, 6-2
• Greet Minnen beat Anastasia Potapova (28): 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
• Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Katerina Siniakova (27): 6-2, 6-2