Interestingly, two Russians, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Veronika Kudermetova, received a “performance bye” for the tournament, allowing them to begin competing immediately in the second round after successful performances at the Tokyo tournament this week. . Other semi-finalists from Tokyo received the same status: American Jessica Pegula and Greek representative Maria Sakkari.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the second round of the tournament will face the winner of the match between Czech tenth seed Barbora Krejcikova and the winner of the qualifier. And Veronika Kudermetova will face the winner of the match between the Ukrainian Lesya Tsurenko and the Chinese Zhu Lin.
Anna Blinkova will meet Croatian Donna Vekic in the first round, and in the second round she could meet Jessica Pegula. Lyudmila Samsonova will start the tournament with a match against the American Alicia Parks. Vera Zvonareva (WC) will play with the Chinese Xinyu Wang and Daria Kasatkina (11 years old) will meet the Egyptian Mayar Sherif.
At the start of the tournament in Beijing, Ekaterina Alexandrova will meet third-seeded American Cori Gauff, and Anastasia Potapova will fight with ex-Russian, now representative of France, Varvara Gracheva.
It is important to note that the world’s first racket, Belarusian tennis player Arina Sabalenka, will meet American Sofia Kenin (WC) in the first round. Fifth seed Elena Rybakina will face China’s Zheng Qingwen, and Iga Swiatek will begin her trip to Beijing with a match against Spanish tennis player Sara Sorribes-Tormo.
- Chesnokov was delighted with Kudermetova’s victory over Swiatek in Tokyo
Source: Sport
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