VIKA AZARENKA SCORES DAY ONE WUHAN WIN, COMPLETE RESULTS AND ORDER OF PLAY

Written by: Staff on 27th September 2015

VIKA AZARENKA SCORES DAY ONE WUHAN WIN, COMPLETE RESULTS AND ORDER OF PLAY

epa04922941 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus reacts as she plays Simona Halep of Romania during their quarterfinals match on the tenth day of the 2015 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 09 September 2015. The US Open runs through 13 September, which is a return to a 14-day schedule. EPA/DANIEL MURPHY |

Two time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka opened her account at the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open with a 62 76(4) win over American qualifier Lauren Davis on Sunday.

Azarenka will now play giant-killing Briton Johanna Konta, another qualifier, who knocked out 13th seed Andrea Petkovic with an impressive 64 75 upset victory.

Azarenka made her debut on the brand new 15,000-seater centre court in Wuhan on Sunday, which had been opened by Li Na and 2014 champion Petra Kvitova earlier in the day.

“I think the structure is pretty incredible here, you know, what they’ve done with the facilities. It’s really impressive,” said the Belarussian. “I think it’s a beautiful stadium. It feels really comfortable. I like it. I mean, it’s great that they have invested and came up with such an amazing facility here.”

Monday sees Ana Ivanovic, Maria Sharapova and recent US Open finalist Roberta Vinci all in action, plus much-anticipated first round matches between Venus Williams and Agnieszka Radwanska and Eugenie Bouchard versus Belinda Bencic.

Johanna Konta

2015 DONGFENG MOTOR WUHAN OPEN – WUHAN, CHINA

 $ 2,513,000.00 27

SEPTEMBER – 03 OCTOBER 2015

RESULTS – SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

 Singles – First Round

[12] E. Svitolina (UKR) d [WC] D. Hantuchova (SVK) 64 64

[Q] J. Konta (GBR) d [13] A. Petkovic (GER) 64 75

A. Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d S. Kuznetsova (RUS) 60 61

V. Azarenka (BLR) d [Q] L. Davis (USA) 62 76(4)

[Q] J. Goerges (GER) d A. Cornet (FRA) 63 63

M. Niculescu (ROU) d [WC] F. Liu (CHN) 61 61

D. Gavrilova (RUS) d T. Pereira (BRA) 62 76(7)

V. Lepchenko (USA) d [WC] S. Zheng (CHN) 64 60

M. Lucic-Baroni (CRO) d S. Stosur (AUS) 62 61

C. Vandeweghe (USA) d L. Tsurenko (UKR) 62 26 63

B. Strycova (CZE) d [Q] T. Babos (HUN) 76(9) 62

Women’s  Doubles – First Round

[5] R. Kops-Jones (USA) / A. Spears (USA) d S. Errani (ITA) / F. Schiavone (ITA) 75 64

A. Kudryavtseva (RUS) / O. Savchuk (UKR) d [WC] C. Liu (CHN) / Z. Yang (CHN) 61 64

ORDER OF PLAY – MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

CENTRE COURT start 11:00 am

A. Dulgheru (ROU) vs [9] A. Ivanovic (SRB)

Not Before 1:00 pm

J. Jankovic (SRB) vs [Q] H. Watson (GBR)

[16] S. Errani (ITA) vs C. Garcia (FRA)

Not Before 6:30 pm

B. Strycova (CZE) vs [2] [WC] M. Sharapova (RUS)

[10] A. Radwanska (POL) vs V. Williams (USA)

COURT 1 start 11:00 am

[Q] D. Kovinic (MNE) vs [15] R. Vinci (ITA)

A. Riske (USA) vs S. Stephens (USA)

M. Lucic-Baroni (CRO) vs [8] K. Pliskova (CZE)

Not Before 3:30 pm

E. Bouchard (CAN) vs [11] B. Bencic (SUI)

COURT 3 start 12:00 noon

M. Brengle (USA) vs D. Cibulkova (SVK)

[Q] P. Tig (ROU) vs K. Mladenovic (FRA)

[14] M. Keys (USA) vs M. Rybarikova (SVK)

Not Before 3:30 pm

Z. Diyas (KAZ) vs I. Begu (ROU)

COURT 4 start 11:00 am

[6] A. Hlavackova (CZE) / L. Hradecka (CZE) vs C. Liang (CHN) / Y. Wang (CHN)

A. Medina Garrigues (ESP) / A. Parra Santonja (ESP) vs [8] C. Chuang (TPE) / S. Hsieh (TPE)

G. Dabrowski (CAN) / A. Rosolska (POL) vs A. Groenefeld (GER) / C. Vandeweghe (USA)

S. Kuznetsova (RUS) / S. Stosur (AUS) vs C. Dellacqua (AUS) / A. Tomljanovic (CRO)

COURT 5 start 12:00 noon

[7] G. Muguruza (ESP) / C. Suárez Navarro (ESP) vs J. Husarova (SVK) / I. Olaru (ROU)

[Q] M. Duque-Mariño (COL) vs A. Schmiedlova (SVK)

T. Pironkova (BUL) vs C. Giorgi (ITA)

The official websites for ticket sales are www.wuhanpen.org / www.4008702014.com or call +86 400 870 2014

About the 2015 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open:

Optics Valley International Tennis Centre, Wuhan, China

WTA Premier 5 event

Qualifying Sept. 25 & 26 – Main Draw Sept 27 – Oct 3, 2015

Prize Money: US$ 2,513,000

56 Singles Main Draw, 32 Qualifying Draw, 28 Doubles Draw

Topics: Agnieszka Radwanska, Ana Ivanovic, Belinda Bencic, Eugenie Bouchard, Johanna Konta, Lauren Davis, Maria Sharapova, Roberta Vinci, Sports, Tennis, Venus Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Wta, Wuhan Open

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