Alina Charaeva, the representative of Armenia, started with a victory in the WTA-250 series Korea Open tournament held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. In the first round, Alina Charaeva, the 121st ranked player in the world, competed with the 106th ranked player in the world, American Sofia Kenin, and won 3:6, 7:6 (7:4), 6:4. The match lasted 2 hours and 46 minutes. Alina Charaeva's next opponent will be the world's 69th ranked player, Hungarian Anna Bondar, who knocked out the world's 92nd ranked player, Mexican Renata Sarasua. The prize fund of Korea Open is 283 thousand dollars.