Wang, already setting her personal best at Grand Slam tournaments in Paris, heated up quicker into the match and took away the first set 6-1.
She built a four-game margin in the second set, before 98th-ranked Putintseva tied the score at 4-all. Wang wasted a pair of match points in the tenth game and Putintseva forced a tiebreak at 7-5.
Wang led 3-0 in the decider, while Putintseva made a strong comeback with five consecutive games through powerful forehands and astute dropshots. Putintseva managed to convert her third match point in the tenth game to set the decider 6-4.
Prior to Wang's exit, Duan Yingying, Zheng Saisai and Wang Yafan were eliminated in the first round, while Zhang Shuai and Peng Shuai crashed out from Thursday's second round.
Women's singles No. 2 seed Caroline Wozniacki beat Frenchman Pauline Parmentier, the only wild card player remaining in the draw, 6-0, 6-3 in one hour and 18 minutes. However, fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina was stunned by Romania's Mihaela Buzarnescu at 6-3, 7-5,
Madison Keys, Daria Kasatkina and Barbora Strycova joined Wozniacki in women's last 16.
Wang regrouped herself to step on doubles court with Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu, and the pair downed Petra Martic and Maria Sakkari 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the first round.
China's Duan Yingying and Yang Zhaoxuan both moved past doubles second round with respective partners.
Zhang Shuai secured a berth in mixed doubles second round, also for her compatriot Xu Yifan.
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