American qualifier upsets No. 2 seed in Thailand

[January 30, 2019]    American qualifier Jennifer Brady upset second-seeded Caroline Garcia in straight sets in the first round of the Thailand Open in Hua Hin.

USA’s Jennifer Brady in action during her second round match against Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova REUTERS/Matthew Childs

Brady defeated Garcia 6-4, 7-6 (3) in 2 hours and 3 minutes. Brady is ranked 117th in the world and earned the victory over the 19th-ranked Garcia.

Chinese qualifier Ying-Ying Duan ousted seventh-seeded Pauline Parmentier of France 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, and No. 4 seed Saisai Zheng rallied to beat Mandy Minella 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-4 in nearly three hours.

Other winners in Hua Hin: Viktorija Golubic, Tamara Zidansek, Yafan Wang and fifth-seeded Shuai Zhang and top-seeded Garbine Muguruza.

St. Petersburg Open

Qualifier Ysaline Bonaventure of Belgium dispatched world No. 38 Katerina Siniakova 6-4, 7-6 (3) in just 1 hour, 40 minutes in St. Petersburg, Russia. Bonaventure draws second-seeded Kiki Bertens in the next round.

Sixth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko needed three sets to defeat Kristina Mladenovic of France, 6-1, 0-6, 6-0.

Also, fifth-seeded Julia Goerges defeated Maria Sakkari in straight sets 6-2, 7-5; No. 8 seed Donna Vekic needed three sets to advance past Timea Bacsinszky 4-6, 6-1, 6-3; and qualifier Tereza Martincova took down Yulia Putintseva 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

--Field Level Media

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