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Seeded 12th in Wuhan, Bertens needed 2 hours,
17 minutes to get past Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 6-3, 4-6,
6-2. The match also featured a 2-hour, 23-minute rain delay and
a court change.
Bertens overcame eight double faults and a poor first-serve rate
(58 percent) to advance.
Fourteenth-seeded Garbine Muguruza of Spain and 16th-seeded
Ashleigh Barty of Australia both advanced with straight-set
wins. Australia's Daria Gavrilova upset 10th-seeded Jelena
Ostapenko of Latvia 6-2, 6-4.
American CoCo Vandeweghe was forced to retire in the third set
of her match against Croatia's Donna Vekic due to a right ankle
injury.
Tashkent Open
Seventeen-year-old Russian Anastasia Potapova pulled off a
first-round upset, beating fourth-seeded Stefanie Voegele of
Switzerland 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Potapova was playing in just her second top-level WTA event of
the year. She has reached the final of three second-level
tournaments in 2018 without emerging as the champion in any of
them.
Other first-round winners included fifth-seeded Tatjana Maria of
Germany, sixth-seeded Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia and
eighth-seeded Dalila Jakupovic of Slovenia.
--Field Level Media
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