China Open: Kenin into second round to face Shnaider
Former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin beat Romanian Ana Bogdan 7-5, 6-2 to advance to the first round of the China Open in Beijing on Wednesday.
The American, who began the season ranked inside the world’s top 40, has now dropped to No 168 in the latest rankings after a 9-21 record on the WTA Tour coming into this week (including 13 opening round losses).
Kenin, ranked No 168, will play No 12 seed Diana Shnaider next at the National Tennis Center.
Beijing WTA 1000, other first round matches (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8,955,610):
- Kimberly Birrell vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Yufei Ren vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Camila Osorio vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Meiling Wang vs. Jana Fett
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Xiyu Wang
- YeXin Ma vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Han Shi
- Harriet Dart vs. Clara Tauson
- Anna Bondar vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Muchova
- Arina Rodionova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Xinxin Yao vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Sijia Wei
- Xinyu Gao vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Yafan Wang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Zarina Diyas vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova
- Qiang Wang vs. Alycia Parks
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Hailey Baptiste
- Shuai Zhang vs. McCartney Kessler
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Peyton Stearns
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Emina Bektas
- Diane Parry vs. En-Shuo Liang
- Clara Burel vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Naomi Osaka
- Katie Volynets vs. Dalma Galfi
- Mai Hontama vs. Xinyu Wang
- Martina Trevisan vs. Taylor Townsend
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Laura Siegemund
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Greet Minnen vs. Erika Andreeva
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