The 24-year-old claimed an 11-3, 11-2, 11-2 win at the Sport Hall Olympic and is now due to face India’s Anura Prabhudesai tomorrow.

Prabhudesai begun her campaign with an 11-8, 11-5, 11-6 victory over Russia’s Anastasiia Semenova.

It was a day of few surprises in Vladivostok with the only notable casualty from the women’s draw being eighth-seeded Russian Ksenia Evgenova.

She lost 7-11, 2-11, 5-11 to India’s Vrushali Gummadi.

Gummadi’s reward is a second-round meeting with another player competing on home soil, Anastasiia Sharapova.

Second seed Evgeniya Kosetskaya is safely through after winning an all-Russian encounter against Anastasia Redkina, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7.

In the men’s singles competition, Czech Republic’s Milan Ludik was the only seed to suffer defeat today with the seventh-ranked player losing 6-11, 6-11, 8-11 to England’s Wang Yuehang.

Awaiting Wang in the third round is Japan’s Kentaro Hoshino.

He advanced to that stage with an 11-9, 11-9, 11-4 win over Russia’s Anton Ivanov.

Russia’s Vladimir Malkov is the favourite for the men’s title following the withdrawal of top seeded-Indian Sourabh Verma.

He started his bid for glory with an 11-5, 11-7, 11-6 victory over Belgium’s Maxime Moreels.

Due up next for the second seed is compatriot Alexandr Kozyrev.

He came from behind to beat Uzbekistan’s Artyom Savatyugin 9-11, 11-7, 11-5, 11-8.

US Open action begun today at the Anaheim Convention Center, where top-seeded men's singles player Lee Hyun-il of South Korea suffered a shock first-round defeat at the hands of India's Kashyap Parupalli.

Parupalli triumphed 21-16, 10-21, 21-19 and will now go onto face Hungary's Gergely Krausz, a 21-19, 21-9 winner over Canada's Timothy Chiu.

In the women's singles competition, top seed and home favourite Beiwen Zhang opened with a comfortable 21-10, 21-8 victory over Hungary's Agnes Korosi.

Standing between her and a place in the third round is Japan's Yui Hashimoto, who overcame Ukraine's Maria Ulitina 21-17, 17-21, 21-13.