The top-seeded Bianca Andreescu (Canada) qualified for the second round of the WTA 250 Thailand Open tennis tournament in Hua Hin with a prize fund of 259,303 USD. The champion of the 2019 US Open started with a victory against the British Harriet Dart by 2-0 (6:3, 6:4).
The Canadian squandered an early break lead, but at 3:3 took eight of the next nine games on her way to victory after 84 minutes of play.
Thus, for a place in the quarterfinals, she will face Anastasia Zakharova (Russia), who defeated Anna Karolína Schmiedlova (Slovakia) by 2-1 (3:6, 7:5, 6:3). The 21-year-old Anastasia Zakharova caught up with a set and 1:3 game in the second and achieved a turnaround.
The 2019 tournament champion Dayana Yastremska (Ukraine) started with a win over Japanese Moyuka Uchijima with 2-1 (6:3, 6:7, 6:2), and in the second round she will face the 6th-seeded German Tatjana Maria, who had no particular problems against qualifier Alex Eala (Philippines) and won by 2-0 (6:2, 6:2).
