Australian Kim Birrell is thru to the second spherical of the WTA 250 occasion in Nanchang, China.
Nanchang, China, 17 October 2023 | Rhys de Deugd
Nanchang, China
Kim Birrell boosts her probabilities of returning to the top-100 within the WTA rankings with a first-round win on the Jiangxi Open in Nanchang, China.
The highest-ranked Australian girl made a promising begin to her marketing campaign on the WTA 250 match, beating native qualifier Sijia Wei 7-5 7-5.
World No.102 Birrell claimed her eighth tour-level win of the season in simply shy of two hours to develop on her career-best yr.
In a decent two-set match, Birrell was in a position to capitalise on her Chinese language opponent’s serve, breaking serve six instances for the match. World No.300 Wei was solely in a position to win 37 per cent of her second serve factors.
The win units up a second-round battle with the winner of high seed Beatriz Haddad Maia and world No.93 Nao Hibino, the place Birrell will look to succeed in her second consecutive quarterfinal.
> READ: Birrell displays on career-best season
The 25-year-old Australian can also be competing in doubles this week alongside Norwegian Ulrikke Eikeri.
Aussies in motion – Nanchang
RESULTS
Girls’s singles, first spherical
Kimberly Birrell (AUS) d Sijia Wei (CHN) 7-5 7-5
COMING UP
Girls’s singles, second spherical
Kimberly Birrell (AUS) v TBC
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/ Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR) v Lidziya Marozava/Katarzyna Piter (POL)
Olivia Tjandramulia (AUS)/ Arianne Hartono (NED) v Diana Shnaider/Camila Osorio (COL)
Tokyo, Japan
Jordan Thompson scored a significant upset within the opening spherical of an ATP 500 match in Tokyo, eliminating world No.9 Alexander Zverev within the opening spherical.
That is the 29-year-old Australian’s third top-10 win of his profession.
> READ MORE: Thompson upsets Zverev at Japan Open
Aussies in motion – Tokyo
RESULTS
Males’s singles, first spherical
Jordan Thompson (AUS) d [3] Alexander Zverev (GER) 6-3 6-4
[8] Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) d Aleksander Vukic (AUS) 7-6(3) 6-7(2) 6-2
Sebastian Ofner (AUT) d Christopher O’Connell (AUS) 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 7-5
Mackenzie McDonald (USA) d Max Purcell (AUS) 7-5 6-4
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[WC] Yosuke Watanuki (JPN)/Sho Shimabukuro (JPN) d Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ John Friends (AUS) 6-4 6-2
COMING UP
Males’s singles, first spherical
[4] Alex de Minaur (AUS) v [Q] Jack Draper (GBR)
Alexei Popyrin (AUS) v [7] Karen Khachanov
Males’s singles, second spherical
Jordan Thompson (AUS) v TBC
Males’s doubles, first spherical
Alexei Popyrin (AUS)/Aleksander Vukic (AUS) v Michael Venus (NZL)/Jamie Murray (GBR)
Max Purcell (AUS)/ Rinky Hijikata (AUS) v [LL] Shintaro Mochizuki(JPN)/Rio Noguchi (JPN)
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