Wuhan Open 2024: Results & updates
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Keep up to date with all the latest results and updates from the British tennis players competing in the WTA 1000 tournament at the Wuhan Open 2024.
Highlights
- Olivia Nicholls reaches women's doubles round of 16
- Katie Boulter bows out in opening round to Lesia Tsurenko 6-2, 7-5
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Day two: Boulter beaten by Tsurenko in opening round
The British action has begun at the last WTA 1000 event of the year in Wuhan, however, it wasn't meant to be for Katie Boulter who was knocked out by Ukraine's Lesia Tsurenko in the opening round.
The British No.1 was beaten 6-2, 7-5 by the world No.96 in an hour and 52 minutes.
Boulter was on the backfoot from the off as she trailed 3-0 in a whirlwind opening set that saw six breaks of serve. The Brit failed to hold serve in the opening set and won just 47% of points behind her first serve, as Tsurenko went on to take the lead after 43 minutes.
While Boulter appeared more settled in the second, it was the Ukrainian who dealt the decisive break late on before sealing the victory on her second match point.
Doubles
Over in the doubles draw, Olivia Nicholls and Czech partner Tereza Mihalikova brough the form that took them to the quarter-finals of the China Open into their opening round contest in Wuhan.
Nicholls and Mihalikova kick-started their campaign with a 7-6(3), 6-3 win over eighth seeds Sofia Kenin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands to reach the round of 16.
The British, Czech duo broke all-American duo five times across the one hour 39 minute match before closing out the victory on their first match point.
Next up, they'll face the Chinese pairing of Wang Xiyu and Qianhui Tang in a bid to make it back-to-back WTA 1000 quarter-finals.
Wuhan Open draws - first round
- Harriet Dart (GBR) & Ashlyn Krueger (USA) vs Zhang Shuai (CHN) & Elise Mertens (BEL)
