Jabeur advances to the semifinals of the Ningbo Open after defeating Murray to advance in the China Open.

With Murray serving for the match at 5-3 in the third set, the 12th-ranked Australian was down but came back to win a tense tiebreaker and move on to the second round.

In the opening round of the China Open on Thursday, Alex de Minaur defeated three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray by scores of 6-4, 5-7, and 7-6 (6) after overcoming a setback in the deciding game.

With Murray serving for the match at 5-3 in the third set, the 12th-ranked Australian was down but came back to win a tense tiebreaker and move on to the second round.

For the China Open in Beijing, eight of the top ten players are there, including Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev.

The second-ranked Alcaraz will play his first competitive match since making it to the U.S. Open semifinals on Friday against qualifier Yannick Hanfmann. The second-seeded Russian will face de Minaur in the following round after Medvedev plays Tommy Paul in the opening round.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina defeated Chinese wild card Yi Zhou 6-2, 6-2, and Tomas Martin Etcheverry defeated Lloyd Harris 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-3 in other first-round matchups.

Stan Wawrinka was defeated by Marcos Giron at the Astana Open in a match in which neither player had a break or even a chance to create a break point, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6).

In other first-round matches, qualifier Sho Shimabukuro defeated Roberto Carballes Baena 6-2, 6-4, qualifier Gregoire Barrere upset qualifier Jurij Rodionov 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5), and sixth-seeded Adrian Mannarino defeated Arthur Rinderkneck 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Petra Kvitova, the second seed, was defeated by Diana Shnaider.

Top-seeded Ons Jabeur defeated Vera Zvonareva, a Russian wild card, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, to go to the Ningbo Open semifinals.

 The third-ranked Katerina Siniakova or Nadia Podoroska will be Jabeur's opponent next.

6-1, 4-6, 6-3. The eighth-seeded Shnaider will play Linda Fruhvirtova next. Bronzetti, Lucia 6-0, 6-3

Fourth-seeded In her final match, Maria Sakkari defeated Misaki Doi 6-3, 6-1, to go to the quarterfinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.

The fifth-seeded Caroline Garcia, who overcame Anhelina Kalinina 6-4, 6-3, will be Sakkari's opponent next.

Additionally, sixth-seeded Daria Kasatkina overcame qualifier Despina Papamichail 6-4, 6-4, while Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova upset Linda Noskova 6-3, 4-6, 6-0.