(Photo credit: Jerry Lai)<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Sorana Cirstea recorded a 7-5, 6-1 win over Mary Stoiana in the second round of the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Cirstea, of Romania, had three aces and benefited from six double faults by Stoiana to win the match in 1 hour and 43 minutes.<\/p>\n
Second-seeded Alexandra Eala of the Philippines gained a measure of revenge against Tereza Valentova by posting a 6-4, 7-6 (7) win over the Czech. Valentova defeated Eala last year in the Japan Women’s Open and in the Qatar Open earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Eala advances to face Antonia Ruzic of Croatia, who secured a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 win over Wang Xinyu of China.<\/p>\n
Chennai Open<\/p>\n
Third-seeded Magda Linette battled through a tough first set before posting a 7-6 (5), 6-0 win over Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima in a second-round match at the WTA 250 event.<\/p>\n
Linette, of Poland, had three aces and took advantage of three double faults to dispatch Uchijima in 1 hour and 41 minutes.<\/p>\n
Seventh-seeded Anastasia Zakharova of Russia had a much easier time of it, breezing to a 6-3, 6-0 win over Vaishnavi Adkar of India.<\/p>\n
Tenth-seeded Lucrezia Stefanini of Italy breezed to a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Switzerland’s Simona Waltert.<\/p>\n
–Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo credit: Jerry Lai) Top-seeded Sorana Cirstea recorded a 7-5, 6-1 win over Mary Stoiana in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[522045,194071,64,63,23307,522043,373091,522044,941,522046,22795,85,747],"class_list":["post-954566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aces-and","tag-advances","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-double","tag-double-faults","tag-faults","tag-hour-and","tag-japan","tag-linette","tag-match","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}