Overview
- Eva Lys defeated former Wimbledon champion Jelena Rybakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 in 2:14 to advance in Beijing.
- The win is Lys’s first over a Top-10 opponent and her first appearance in a WTA-1000 last 16, making her the first German to do so in Beijing since 2018.
- Lys will face either Barbora Krejcikova or McCartney Kessler in the next round.
- Ella Seidel, newly at No. 95 after her Seoul breakthrough, lost to Marta Kostyuk 1-6, 1-6 in 59 minutes after entering the main draw through qualifying.
- Tatjana Maria and Laura Siegemund were eliminated in their opening matches at the approximately $9 million WTA-1000 event.