Vinci suffers first-round exit at Guangzhou

Sixth seed Roberta Vinci crashed out in the first round of the Guangzhou Open on Monday after losing in straight sets to Lin Zhu.

China’s Zhu, who is currently ranked 185th in the world, beat her Italian opponent 6-3 7-6 (8/7) and will now face either Belgium’s Alison van Uytvanck or Taiwan’s Su-Wei Hsieh.