Armenian Elina Avanesyan edged out Russian wildcard Erika Andreeva 6-1, 6-7 (4), 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday.
Avanesyan, ranked No 36, will face No 5 seed Madison Keys next.
Miami WTA 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Belinda Bencic
- Mayar Sherif vs. Lulu Sun
- Suzan Lamens vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Katie Boulter vs. Peyton Stearns
- Tyra Caterina Grant vs. Julia Grabher
- Alexandra Eala vs. Katie Volynets: wednesday
- Caroline Garcia beat Anna Bondar (Q): 6-0, 7-6 (5)
- Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- McCartney Kessler beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
- Emma Raducanu beat Sayaka Ishii (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Victoria Mboko (WC) beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 5-7, 6-3
- Kimberly Birrell (Q) beat Anastasia Potapova: 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Anna Blinkova beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Ann Li: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Ashlyn Krueger beat Renata Zarazua: 6-3, 6-2
- Hailey Baptiste (WC) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1
- Rebeka Masarova (Q) beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5
- Sofia Kenin beat Petra Kvitova (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Polina Kudermetova: 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2
- Lauren Davis beat Aoi Ito (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Linda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Claire Liu (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Rebecca Sramkova beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka beat Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Sorana Cirstea beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-4, 6-3
- Katerina Siniakova beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
- Magda Linette beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Alycia Parks beat Varvara Gracheva: 3-6, 7-6, 6-3
- Viktoriya Tomova beat Catherine McNally: 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
