No 3 Seed Amanda Anisimova only fell 4 games on Friday at Katie Boulter in the WTA 1000 China Open 2nd Round in Beijing on Friday, the day that the 32 seeds involved in the tournament, in particular, those in the underly half of the 96-player direction.
I am super excited to be back in Beijing. I like to play here, and I really love the city, so it’s good to be back. I really like to play here, so I hope I can play well and hopefully I can get far into these tournaments. I have a lot of fans here, which is really fun, they were great today, and you can come out for my next one! Amanda Anisimova
Last year Boulter’s ranking at no. 23, but the British No. 2 fell to 54 after a fragmentary season due to injury, a lack of trust and a few tweaks to her serve.
Last week Boulter, however, helped Great Britain to reach the semi-final of the Billie Jean King Cup with a statement victory on the Japanese Moyuka Uchijima, a welcome return to form after her Wimbledon ended with a disappointing 2nd round defeat against Lucky Loser Solana Sierra.
On Friday she suffered an extensive loss of 6-1 6-3 against Anisimova, the Wimbledon and US Open finalist, after she had defeated her American countryman Hailey Baptiste, 7-5 5-7 6-4, in the 1st round, only to be completely overwhelmed by the 3rd seed in the 2nd.
Boulter produced 7 double mistakes compared to the 2 of Anisimova, in a competition that lasted an hour and 19 minutes, with the American Landing a Cross-Court Backhand winner on its 3rd race point that the Brit could easily reach.
“I am super excited to be back in Beijing,” Anisimova said afterwards. “I like to play here, and I really love the city, so it’s good to be back. I really like to play here, so I hope I can play well and hopefully I can get far in these tournaments.
“I have a lot of fans here, which is really fun, they were great today, and you can come out for my next one!”
Anisimova is moving forward to the Chinese Wildcard Zhang Shuai, who makes her countryman of region, Wang Xinyu, the no. 31 Seed, 6-4 6-2.
Defending champion Coco Gauff came out on Friday with a straight sets victory at Kamilla Rakhimova on Friday in Beijing, China
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Elsewhere in Beijing, Coco Gauff’s title defense was opened with a 6-4 6-0 victory, the American who beat Russian Kamilla Rakhimova to reach the last 32.
The reigning champion saved 8 breakpoints in a tense first set before he drove through the second in a match that lasted an hour and 43 minutes, causing Gauff’s 11th career Main-draw victory in Beijing.
In their first meeting, Gauff struggled early, with 2 double mistakes and was confronted with 4 breaking points in her opening service, but she held, before she broke Rakhimova later in the set with a sizzling backhand along the line, one of the many she hit through the game.
“I am happy with how I played,” Gauff said after the game. ‘[Rakhimova] Start well played, and I was just used to the circumstances, but I thought it was generally a good match. I am super happy to be back here in Beijing. It is clear that I had great memories last year and I hope to make some more good memories here. “
Gauff was again confronted with 4 breaking points before she closed the first set in just under an hour, and from there she took control of, where she broke Rakhimova to open the second set, which saved 2 breaking points on her own serve on the way to a 2-0 lead.
In total, Gauff won the last 7 games of the competition, including the last of the opening set, which sealed the victory with an AAS.
Gauff will be confronted with the No. 25 Seed, Leylah Fernandez, after the Canadian had delivered its own bagel in a commander 6-2 6-0 victory in Greece in one hour and 14 minutes, with which she secured her first victory against the former top 10 player in 4 attempts.
Fernandez broke in the opening match and never looked back, converted all 5 breaking points and dominated from start to finish.
She broke again to start second place and combined a near-curse-free return game with a sharp portion, and won 71% of her first service points and a stunning 61% on her second serve.
It was a clinical display of the Canadian left -handed person, who now focuses on another opponent that she still has to beat in Gauff.
In two earlier meetings, both this year, Gauff has won all 4 sets, but before they meet, the American plans some downtime for himself.
“I want to go shopping,” said Gauff. “So I think we’re going to some of the shopping centers here today.”
Jasmine Paolini passed Anastasija Sevastova in her 2nd round game of the China Open on Friday
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6th placed Jasmine Paolini and No 8 Seed Elena Rybakina placed contrasting scorel lines in their openers, both rise to the occasion when it mattered.
Paolini defeated 2018 finalist Anastasija Sevastova from Latvia for the 4th time in as many meetings and went up in just one hour and 10 minutes with 6-1 6-3, after Rybakina had struggled past America’s Caty McNally, 7-5 4-6 6-3, in 2 hours and 28 minutes, 3 Setpoints.
Despite Paolini’s simple Scoreline, it was a competition in which the momentum could have waved several times, not least in the beginning, in which she had to save breakpoints in her first 2 service games, and in the second, when Sevastova began to find her reach on some finely sliced drop-shots.
Italian, however, fresh from Italy to a Billie Jean King Cup title defense last week, stamped each potential turning point and saved all 7 breakpoints with which she was confronted.
The next opponent of Paolini will not be 27 seeds Sofia Kenin, after the American defeated the Russian Polina Kudermetova, 6-4 6-2.
Elena Rybakina needed 3 sets to pass Caty McNally in the National Tennis Center in Beijing, China, on Friday
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The performance of Rybakina was not so clean, because the Kazache 68 born in Russia committed casual mistakes and needed a medical time-out in the second set for treatment on her shoulder before he finally passed McNally.
The American, who had defeated Rybakina through retirement in their only earlier meeting, in Charleston 2021, also turned out to be a difficult opponent and got a foot in the second set with different excellent trips on the net.
However, Rybakina was able to hold on when she had to, confronted with 3 set points while McNally served for the opener on 5-4, and the first saved with a forehand winner and the second with a return directly to the American’s feet.
McNally was then fitting double on the third and delivered a volley to drop her serve, and 2 games later. Rybakina has turned a backhand winner directly from an American smash to steal the set.
In the decision-maker, McNally threatened a late indictment after saving 3 breaking points that would have deposited her 5-1, and rejuvenated with her form, she held 2 Break-back points in the next game, but Rybakina was able to reverse the returned attempt with accurate power that retained her lead.
Rybakina will then be confronted with Eva Lys from Germany, who brought down an escape of 2-5 in the third set to beat the 17-year-old IVA Jovic, the no. 32 seed from the US, 6-3 4-6 7-5.
Barbora Krejcikova Disrupted Ekaterina Alexandrova, the 9th Seed, in the 2nd round of the China open on Friday
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Barbora Krejcikova from the Czech Republic, put her right on top of each other with Ekaterina Alexandrova on 3 wins each with a 7-5 6-2 upset victory over Russian no. 9 seeds in her 2nd round meeting.
The competition was their first meeting since Roland Garros 2021, and since he had lost the first 3 in the series, Krejcikova has now won 3 in a row.
The result was also Krejcikova’s 3rd Top 20 victory from 2025 so far, and sends the Czech to meet the American McCartney Kessler, who made Elise Mertens upset, the 20th seed from Belgium, 6-2 6-4.
Two other Czechs also went on, no 13 seed Karolina Muchova, who beat Sorana Cirstea in Romania, 6-2 6-2, for the 5th time in a row, and for the 7th time in 8 meetings since 2020.
Muchova then meets the Spain’s Paula, the 18th seed, who defeated Antonia Ruzic from Croatia, 6-3 7-6 (2).
Marie Bouzkova disturbed Poland’s Magda Linette, the no. 33 seed, 7-5 7-5, and the Czech now takes it against Veronika Kudermetova, after the Russian 24th seed was a 7-5 6-3 winner against Anna Bondar from Hungary.
In another day 3-result, Belinda Bencic, the Swiss 15th Seed, defeated Katie Volynets from the US, 6-3 6-3, to set up a meeting with Priscilla Hon in Australia, that Letland’s no 22 seed, Jelena Ostapenko, 6-3 6-2.
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