Boulter makes light work of Hong Kong opener

Britain's Katie Boulter made airy enactment of Japan's Aoi Ito to scope the 2nd circular of the Hong Kong Open.

Second effect Boulter bushed satellite fig 156 Aoi 6-4 6-4.

Boulter has enjoyed a career-best season, winning 2 WTA Tour titles and reaching a precocious of 27 successful the satellite rankings.

The 28-year-old thanked the assemblage afterwards for their support, saying she "needed a push" aft playing successful the semi-finals successful Tokyo conscionable 3 days earlier.

"It's astatine the extremity of a agelong play and I americium trying to propulsion my assemblage and myself arsenic overmuch arsenic possible," she said.

Boulter volition look China's Wang Xiyu for a spot successful the quarter-finals.

Fellow Briton Heather Watson mislaid 6-2 6-2 to 2021 US Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez successful the aforesaid event.

Jack Draper, conscionable 2 days aft winning the biggest rubric of his vocation successful Vienna, volition statesman his Paris Masters run against Jiri Lehecka aboriginal connected Tuesday.

World fig 1 Jannik Sinner withdrew from the Masters 1,000 lawsuit tourney successful Paris connected Tuesday with illness.

Italy's Sinner said helium had picked up a microorganism aft arriving aboriginal successful the metropolis to practise for the event.

"Body-wise, I americium not acceptable to compete," the 23-year-old said.

"I americium precise atrocious for that but it volition hopefully beryllium a large twelvemonth without me."

Sinner volition beryllium hopeful of recovering earlier the season-ending ATP Finals, which instrumentality spot successful Turin from 13-20 November.