Monday’s first-round action at the $2,365,250 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open was an elimination field for both the tournament’s top seed Petra Kvitova and finalists at the recently-finished US Open, champion Sloane Stephens and runner-up Madison Keys.
In the opening match on Centre Court, after quickly dropping the first set to fellow American Varvara Lepchenkova, tenth seed Madison Keys improved in the second, but then wasted two set points and after saving a match point to force a tiebreak, the US Open runner-up was again in a big deficit of 1-5 in the tiebreak, eventually losing the match 6-2 7-6(4).