Katie Boulter is out of the Wuhan Open after a straight-set defeat by Ukrainian qualifier Lesia Tsurenko.
The British primary was crushed 6-2 7-5 within the first spherical by the world quantity 96.
Boulter fell 3-0 down in a topsy-turvy first set that produced six breaks of serve, together with 5 in a row, with Tsurenko taking it in 43 minutes.
The second set was extra aggressive, with Tsurenko making the decisive break within the eleventh recreation earlier than holding serve to seal victory.
The Ukrainian will subsequent play Poland’s Magda Linette, who beat eleventh seed Liudmila Samsonova 6-2 6-2.
Spanish 14th seed Paula Badosa pulled out of the occasion on Tuesday citing a gastrointestinal sickness.
On Monday, she was pressured to apologise after being accused of racism on social media due to {a photograph} the place she appeared to mock Chinese language folks.