September 29, 2015, 8:55 AM
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Top-seeded Annika Beck of Germany reached the second round of the Tashkent Open on Tuesday, defeating Russia’s Elizaveta Kulichkova 6-3, 6-1.
Beck faced 11 break points against Kulichkova, but lost serve only once, in the second set.
Beck next plays Jana Cepelova of Slovakia, who breezed past Uzbekistani qualifier Sabina Sharipova 6-2, 6-1.
Also Tuesday, seventh-seeded Jelena Ostapenko lost in the first round 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 to Serbia’s Bojana Jovanovski.
Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan beat eighth-seeded Andreea Mitu of Romania 7-5, 6-3.