TOKYO: A turbulent Japan Women’s Open ended the second round on Wednesday with fifth seed Johanna Larsson losing out. Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer defeated the Swede 7-5, 6-3, while Croatian Ajla Tomljanovic eliminated Japanese hopeful Kimiko Date-Krumm 7-6 (7/5), 6-3.

Third seed Madison Brengle and sixth seed Christina McHale, both American, survived.

On Tuesday, the WTA International event in Tokyo saw top seed Carla Suarez Navarro suffer a first-round exit as she was beaten 4-6, 4-6 by the world’s 85th ranked Kateryna Bondarenko from Ukraine.