Mérida Open: Udvardy advances to second round
Panna Udvardy beat Jule Niemeier 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5) on Tuesday night. She’ll face the winner of the match between Pole Magda Linette, the top seed, and Colombian Camila Osorio in the next round
Hungarian Panna Udvardy advanced to the second round of the Mérida Open by defeating German Jule Niemeier 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5) at the Yucatan Country Club on Tuesday night.
Udvardy, ranked No 91, will face the winner of the match between Pole Magda Linette, the top seed, and Colombian Camila Osorio next.
Mérida WTA 250, other first-round results (Yucatan Country Club, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):
- Fernanda Contreras Gomez vs. Alycia Parks
- Magda Linette vs. Camila Osorio
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Rebecca Peterson
- Tatjana Maria vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Leolia Jeanjean vs. Sloane Stephens: tuesday
- Katerina Siniakova (4) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 7-5 ret.
- Xinyu Wang beat Elina Avanesyan (Q): 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto (7) beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-0, 6-3
- Kimberly Birrell (Q) beat Anna Bondar: 7-6 (8), 6-1
- Camila Giorgi beat Mayar Sherif (6): 6-4, 6-2
- Katie Volynets (WC) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
- Xiyu Wang beat Alison Riske-Amritraj (8): 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (1)
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Ana Konjuh (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2
- Catherine McNally beat Lin Zhu (3): 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 6-1
- Ysaline Bonaventure beat Simona Waltert (WC): 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
