Tuesday
At Tianhe Sports Center
Guangzhou, China
Purse: $500,000 (Intl.)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
First Round
Wang Yafan, China, def. Samantha Stosur (1), Australia, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, def. Sloane Stephens (3), United States, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Monica Niculescu, Romania, def. Bojana Jovanovski (4), Serbia, 6-2, 6-2.
Zhang Ling, Hong Kong, def. Zarina Diyas (5), Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-1.
Kai-Lin Zhang, China, def. Jana Cepelova (7), Slovakia, 6-1, 6-4.
Xu Yi-Fan, China, def. Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, Austria, 6-2, 6-3.
Petra Martic, Croatia, def. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 7-6 (3), 6-1.
Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, def. Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-4.
Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, def. Karin Knapp, Italy, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.
Doubles
First Round
Alize Cornet, France, and Magda Linette, Poland, def. Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Katarzyna Piter (3), Poland, 6-2, 4-6, 10-5.
Raluca Olaru, Romania, and Shahar Peer (4), Israel, def. Wang Yafan and Zhu Lin, China, def. 7-6 (5), 6-1.
Annika Beck, Germany, and Petra Martic, Croatia, def. Johanna Larsson, Sweden, and Anna Smith, Britain, 6-2, 6-4.