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Taiwan's Su-wei Hsieh, who is ranked 32nd in
the world, got past 13th-seeded Dane Wozniacki 6-7 (2), 6-1,
6-2. Puerto Rico's Monica Puig, rated 71st, knocked off
11th-seeded German Kerber 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-1.
Hsieh's next opponent will be another major title winner,
Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova, who advanced when Kazakhstan's
Yulia Putintseva retired because of a left ankle injury while
trailing 6-1, 1-0.
Other first-round winners included fifth-seeded Petra Kvitova of
the Czech Republic, ninth-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus and
15th-seeded Sofia Kenin of the United States. Christina McHale
of the United States upset 14th-seeded Anastasija Sevastova of
Latvia 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, and Ons Jabeur of Tunisia stopped
16th-seeded Donna Vekic of Croatia 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Tashkent Open
Fourth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko was one game from losing when she
retired due to illness in the first round at Tashkent,
Uzbekistan.
Ukraine's Katarina Zavatska led 6-3, 5-4 when Ostapenko was
forced to stop.
Top-seeded Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia defeated the United
States' Francesca Di Lorenzo 7-6 (3), 6-3, and third-seeded
Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium routed Russia's Liudmilla
Samsonova 6-0, 6-1.
Eighth-seeded Sorana Cirstea of Romania beat the Czech
Republic's Denisa Allertova 6-1, 6-4, but ninth-seeded Kateryna
Bondarenko of Ukraine fell to Belgium's Greet Minnen 6-2, 6-2.
--Field Level Media
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