The current champion of the competition is Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, who won it in 2018.
The top seed from Hong Kong was dominated by Belarusian tennis player Victoria Azarenka. In the first round match, she will face 2021 US Open finalist, Canadian Leila Fernandez.
Russian women’s matches in the first round of the Hong Kong tournament:
Mirra Andreeva (Russia) – Dayana Yastremskaya (Ukraine)
Xinyu Wang (China, 4) – Elina Avanesyan (Russia)
Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan) – Anna Blinkova (Russia, 5 years old)
Varvara Gracheva (France, 8 years old) – Camilla Rakhimova (Russia)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) – Yana Fett (Croatia).
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