{"id":31325,"date":"2017-01-01T16:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T16:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31325"},"modified":"2017-01-01T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T16:53:26","slug":"seeded-players-start-well-in-wta-shenzhen-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31325","title":{"rendered":"Seeded players start well in WTA Shenzhen Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5538\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis.jpg\" alt=\"tennis\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Shenzhen (China):Seeded players fared well at the start of the $750,000 WTA Shenzhen Open tennis tournament as both Monica Niculescu and Alison Riske found their way to the second round after beating two home players respectively here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian seventh seed Niculescu bounced back from a 5-7 loss to home wild card Zhang Kailin in the first set and easily took two straight sets 6-1, 6-3 to book a spot in the last 16, reports Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s finalist Riske, seeded eighth, went through two tough tie-breakers to beat 23-year-old home player Zhu Lin 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5) in two hours and 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Qiang, who ranked 72nd in the world, is the only Chinese singles player who claimed a victory on the first matchday. She knocked out Russia&#8217;s Evgeniya Rodina in straight sets 6-2, 6-3 to set up a second round meeting with Niculescu.<\/p>\n<p>Former world No.1 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia advanced to the doubles&#8217; second round with Katerina Siniakova from Czech Republic after beating Britain&#8217;s Johanna Konta and Swiss player Timea Bacsinszky 7-6 (9-7), 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5538\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis.jpg\" alt=\"tennis\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Shenzhen (China):Seeded players fared well at the start of the $750,000 WTA Shenzhen Open tennis tournament as both Monica Niculescu and Alison Riske found their way to the second round after beating two home players respectively here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian seventh seed Niculescu bounced back from a 5-7 loss to home wild card Zhang Kailin in the first set and easily took two straight sets 6-1, 6-3 to book a spot in the last 16, reports Xinhua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10591,466,15178,12894,20059],"class_list":["post-31325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-tennis-news","tag-alison-riske","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-monica-niculescu","tag-tennis-news","tag-wta-shenzhen-open-tennis-tournament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seeded players start well in WTA Shenzhen Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31325\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seeded players start well in WTA Shenzhen Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shenzhen (China):Seeded players fared well at the start of the $750,000 WTA Shenzhen Open tennis tournament as both Monica Niculescu and Alison Riske found their way to the second round after beating two home players respectively here on Sunday. 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