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Defending champion Naomi Osaka moved on to the second round
after playing just one game. She was up 1-0, 30-30 when Daria
Saville of Australia was forced to retire when she sustained a
knee injury after leaping to hit a forehand shot. Osaka won her
home-country tournament in 2019, and it hasn't been played since
because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Osaka will meet No. 5 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil, who
defeated wild card Yuki Naito of Japan 6-4, 6-2, an opponent
playing in her second WTA main-draw match. Also moving on were
No. 6 Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic and Shuai Zhang of
China.
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Top seed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia needed three sets and a
tiebreaker to defeat home-country favorite Boyoung Jeong, ranked
No. 688 in the world, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2) in Seoul.
Ostapenko had a chance to serve for the match at 5-4 in the
third set, but Jeong held her to love to tie the match at five
games each. Both players held serve in their next games to send
the first-round match to a tiebreaker.
No. 2 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia also needed three
sets to move on, defeating American Asia Muhammad 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
in one hour, 34 minutes. Another Russian, Anastasia Gasanova,
topped Australian Astra Sharma in straight sets.
Tatjana Maria of Germany advanced with a straight-sets win over
Eugenie Bouchard of Canada, while Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva of
Andorra ousted Chloe Paquet of France.
--Field Level Media
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