Vu Thi Trang

HA NOI (VNS) — No 5 seed Vu Thi Trang of Viet Nam will play Indonesia's Lyanny Alessandra Mainaky in the first-round women's singles event of the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix today.

Trang is seeded No 50 in the world, while her rival is No 218.

Another Vietnamese at the tournament is Nguyen Tien Minh in the men's singles category.

No 1 seed Minh will compete in the second round. His rival will be the winner of the match between Lee Hock Lai of Malaysia and Simon Santoso of Indonesia.

The Grand Prix runs from today to October 18, with the winners walking away with a total sum of US$50,000. — VNS