British number six Heather Watson managed to come back and beat Yulia Putintseva in the first round of the Thailand Open.
Watson, 30, won 5-7 6-4 7-6 (7-5) in Hua Hin in a match that featured 14 breaks of serve and lasted three hours.
Kazakhstan’s Putintseva, 28, is 44th in the WTA rankings, 116 places above Watson.
Watson will play South Korea’s Na-Lae Han, who beat Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse, on Wednesday for a place in the quarter-finals.
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