Lyudmyla Kichenok and Asia Muhammad defeated Mariia Kozyreva and Vera Zvonareva in the round of 32 of the doubles event in Beijing 6-1, 5-7, 1-0 (9) to advance to the round of 16. The WTA 1000 tournament is being played on hard courts, with a prize fund of $9.4 million. The information is provided by api.tennis.
Kozyreva and Zvonareva arrived in Beijing after the tournament in Guadalajara. There they defeated Kayla Day and Renata Zarazua, then beat Alexa Guarachi and Makoto Ninomiya, before losing in the semifinal to Cristina Bucsa and Nicole Melichar-Martinez 6-7 (6), 2-6.