Raducanu and Kartal reach China Open third round

Britain's Emma Raducanu and Sonay Kartal claimed straight-set wins to scope nan 3rd information of nan China Open successful Beijing.

British number 1 Raducanu was tested passim by unseeded Spaniard Cristina Bucsa but battled to a 6-3 6-3 victory.

Kartal produced a powerful show to spot disconnected Australian 14th seed Daria Kasatkina 6-3 6-0 successful small nether an hour.

Kartal will meet Australian teen Maya Joint successful nan past 32, while Raducanu faces American 5th seed Jessica Pegula.

World number 31 Raducanu, nan 30th seed, managed only 16 winners to Bucsa's 28, but maintained nan precocious manus successful nan cardinal exchanges.

She saved six break points successful a competitory first group earlier winning nan last 2 games to seemingly return complaint of nan match.

Raducanu won nan opening 2 games of nan 2nd but, aft missing nan chance to spell 3-0 up, was pegged backmost arsenic Bucsa yet collapsed service to tie level astatine 2-2.

She collapsed backmost instantly and won 4 of nan last 5 games.

Raducanu, who had a bye successful nan first round, was playing for nan first clip since losing to Barbora Krejcikova successful nan quarter-finals of nan Korea Open this month, erstwhile she missed 3 lucifer points.

"I'm very happy to person gotten complete it and aft a reliable 1 past week to bounce back," said Raducanu, earlier impressing nan crowd by speaking Mandarin.

"I really want to do good here. I'm half-Chinese truthful it's awesome to travel back."

British number 3 and world number 81 Kartal mislaid only 5 games successful her first-round triumph complete Alycia Parks.

She produced an moreover much polished capacity connected Saturday, converting six of 11 break points to swat speech world number 20 Kasatkina.

It was Kartal's 3rd triumph this twelvemonth complete an force classed successful nan apical 20.

She will person to upset nan likelihood again against 19-year-old Joint, who has won 2 WTA titles and is 45 places supra Kartal successful nan rankings.

Top seed Iga Swiatek claimed a comfortable 6-0 6-3 triumph complete China's Yue Yuan to group up a third-round lucifer against unseeded Colombian Camila Osorio.

Japan's Naomi Osaka, who reached nan women's semi-finals of nan US Open this month, suffered a daze 6-1 4-6 2-6 conclusion by Belarusian world number 130 Aliaksandra Sasnovich.