WTA Guadalajara: Stephens eases past qualifier Fruhvirtova, meets Bencic next

American Sloane Stephens advanced to the second round of the Guadalajara Open by beating Czech qualifier Linda Fruhvirtova 6-0, 6-2 at the Centro Panamericano de Tenis on Tuesday night.

Stephens, ranked No 50, will play Swiss Belinda Bencic. The No 10 seed defeated Canadian Leylah Fernandez in a three-set battle in the late evening match.

Guadalajara WTA 1000, other first-round matches:

• Petra Kvitova (16) beat Bernarda Pera: 6-3, 7-5
• Camila Osorio beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (15): 6-4, 7-6 (8)
• Elise Mertens beat Asia Muhammad (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Marta Kostyuk beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-1, 6-3
• Bianca Andreescu beat Jil Teichmann: 6-2, 6-4
• Rebecca Marino (Q) beat Ann Li: 6-2, 7-6 (2)
• Liudmila Samsonova beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-1, 7-5
• Lin Zhu beat Alize Cornet: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka (LL) beat Elina Avanesyan (LL): 6-4, 6-2
• Elena Rybakina vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Eugenie Bouchard vs. Kayla Day
• Donna Vekic vs. Laura Pigossi
• Shelby Rogers vs. Martina Trevisan
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Tereza Martincova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Danielle Collins vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Magda Linette vs. Madison Keys
• Magdalena Frech vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Lauren Davis vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Fernanda Contreras Gomez

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