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Home favourite Naomi Osaka held off Italy’s Jasmine Paolini for a 6-3, 7-6 (4) first-round win on Tuesday on the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.
The seventh-seeded Osaka, who gained the WTA 500 match in 2019 and was runner-up in 2016 and 2018, saved seven of 9 break factors and struck 30 winners. Up subsequent for the four-time Grand Slam winner is 18-year-old Mia Pohankova of Slovakia, a 6-1, 6-4 winner in opposition to Czech Tereza Valentova.
Australia’s Maya Joint defeated No. 6 Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the one different match involving a seeded participant.
Also advancing to the second spherical have been Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus, Leylah Fernandez of Canada, Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan, Cristina Busa of Spain and Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova.
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No. 2 seed Janice Tjen of Indonesia wanted solely 58 minutes to finish a 6-2, 6-2 first-round win in opposition to Polina Kudermetova of Uzbekistan on the WTA 250 match in China.
Tjen gained 23 of 26 factors on her first serve, by no means confronted a break level and had solely 4 unforced errors in comparison with 29 for her opponent. She will meet Britain’s Harriet Dart within the second spherical.
No. 4 Lilli Tagger of Austria eradicated 46-year-old Venus Williams 6-2, 6-2 and No. 6 Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey outlasted Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska knocked out No. 8 Katie Volynets 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (7) in 2 hours and 44 minutes.
Unseeded winners advancing to the second spherical included China’s Xinran Sun, American Claire Liu, Spain’s Kaitlin Quevedo, Poland’s Magda Linette and Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann.
–Field Level Media