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Navarro converted five of her seven break-point
opportunities, while Keys broke serve three times on five
chances.
Navarro advances to face former U.S. Open finalist Leylah
Fernandez of Canada, who knocked out 13th-seeded Elise Mertens
of Belgium 6-3, 6-4.
The event's top two seeds cruised to wins, as No. 1 Ons Jabeur
of Tunisia routed the United States' Alycia Parks 6-2, 6-2, and
No. 2 Maria Sakkari of Greece downed Australia's Storm Hunter
6-2, 6-4.
Third-seeded Caroline Garcia of France came from behind to beat
Belarus' Aliaksandra Sasnovich 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4, and
eighth-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia eked out a 7-6
(5), 7-6 (8) victory over Poland's Magdalena Frech.
The United States' Sofia Kenin eliminated 12th-seeded Anhelina
Kalinina of Ukraine 6-2, 7-6 (5).
Guangzhou Open
No. 4 seed Lucia Bronzetti of Italy swept past Ya Yi Yang of
Taiwan 6-1, 6-0 in an hour flat in first-round action in
Guangzhou, China.
Bronzetti broke Yang's serve five times in nine opportunities
and won 21 of 27 first-service points while never losing her own
serve. Her next opponent will be Japan's Moyuka Uchijima, who
outlasted France's Jessika Ponchet 7-5, 3-6, 6-3.
No. 3 seed Tatjana Maria of Germany also had an easy time in the
first round, beat Alexandra Eala of the Philippines 6-3, 6-0.
Daria Saville of Australia rallied past Germany's Anna-Lena
Friedsam 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, and Viktoria Hruncakova of Slovakia beat
Russian Anna Kalinskaya 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3. Other first-round
winners included Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland; Yulia
Putintseva of Kazakhstan; and Xiyu Wang, Yue Yuan and Zhuoxuan
Bai of China.
--Field Level Media
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