WTA in Asia, ATP in Europe

Lots of tennis this week on both the ATP and WTA Tours, Europe and Asia respectively.

WTA 

• the Toray Pan Pacific Open, in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, on Hard Green, Set (Premier Category)
• the Guangzhou International Women’s Open, in Guangzhou, China, on Hard, Toplus SPA (International Category)
• the KEB Hana Bank Korea Open, in Seoul, Korea, on Hard, DecoTurf (International Category)

ATP 

• the St. Petersburg Open, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Hard, Rebound Ace (ATP 250 Category)
• the Moselle Open, in Metz, France, on Hard, Slamcourt (ATP 250 Category)

WTA

Tokyo

Caroline Wozniacki is the top seed, world ranked #2, and the top five seeds are in the top 10.

The top four seeds have first round byes

First round results:

• Camila Giorgi defeated qualifier Misaki Doi 6-2 6-1
• Dominika Cibulková defeated qualifier Nao Hibino 6-1 5-7 6-3
• Anett Kontaveit defeated Kiki Mladenovic 6-3 7-6(5)
• Garbiñe Muguruza (6) defeated Belinda Bencic 6-2 6-4
• Dasha Gavrilova defeated wildcard Kristyna Pliskova 7-6(2) 3-6 7-6(8)
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3 6-4
• Wildcard Vika Azarenka defeated fellow wildcard Kurumi Nara 6-4 7-5
• Ash Barty (7) defeated CoCo Vandeweghe 4-6 6-3 7-5
• Barbora Strycova (8) defeated qualifier Zarina Diyas 6-4 6-4
• Qualifier Alison Riske defeated fellow qualifier Eugenie Bouchard 6-4 6-4
• Donna Vekic defeated Sloane Stephens (5) 6-4 6-4
• Johanna Konta defeated qualifier Gabriela Dabrowski 6-2 6-0

Guangzhou 

Alizé Cornet is the top seed, world ranked #34, and all seeds are in the top 70.

Second seed, Shuai Zhang, was a late withdrawal, and her place in the draw was taken by lucky loser Lin Zhu.

First round results:

• Sabine Lisicki defeated wildcard Vera Zvonareva 6-4 6-2
• Yulia Putintseva (5) defeated Sorribes Tormo 6-1 6-1
• Bernarda Pera defeated Magdalena Frech 7-6(3) 6-1
• Fiona Ferro defeated wildcard Xiyu Wang 6-3 6-3
• Vera Lapko (7) defeated Vania King 6-2 6-1
• Jennifer Brady defeated Alizé Cornet (1) 6-0 6-3
• Kateryna Kozlova defeated qualifier Jia-Jing Lu 6-0 7-6(4)
• Aleksandra Krunic (4) defeated Viktorija Golubic 6-4 6-3
• Christina McHale defeated Ana Bogdan 4-6 6-3 3-1 (retired)
• Viktoria Kuzmova defeated qualifier Ivana Jorovic 6-2 6-3
• Saisai Zheng (8) defeated qualifier Hanyu Guo 6-4 6-2
• Wildcard Sveta Kuznetsova defeated qualifier Karman Thandi 3-6 6-3 6-2
• Qiang Wang (3) defeated Nicole Gibbs 6-1 6-2
• Qualifier Deniz Khazaniuk defeated wildcard Xinyu Wang 6-4 4-6 6-3
• Andrea Petkovic defeated qualifier Lizette Cabrera 1-6 6-3 6-3
• Yafan Wang defeated lucky loser Lin Zhu 6-2 6-2