Alexandrova defeated Halep and reached the third round of the WTA tournament in Beijing

The meeting lasted 1 hour 3 minutes and ended with a score of 6: 2, 6: 3.

Recall that at the moment, Halep is the fifth racket of the world. She has won victories at Roland Garros (2018) and Wimbledon (2019).

Alexandrova in the next round will play with the winner of the confrontation between another representative of Russia Daria Kasatkina and Arina Sobolenko from Belarus.

Earlier, Karen Khachanov entered the second round of the ATP tournament in Beijing.