Indian Wells: Giorgi continues best start to season, sets up Pegula clash in second round
The Italian, who won the Merida Open last month, improved to 9-5 for the season with the win
Camila Giorgi at Montreal in 2021 © AI / Reuters / Panoramic
Italian Camila Giorgi won against Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus 6-3, 6-3 to reach the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Wednesday.
Giorgi, who won the Merida Open at the end of last month, improved to 9-5 for the season with the win, her best start to a season in her career so far.
The Italian, ranked No 46 in the world, will face No 3 seed Jessica Pegula next.
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8,800,000, most recent results first):
- Xiyu Wang beat Olga Danilovic (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Katie Swan (Q): 7-6 (6), 7-5
- Xinyu Wang beat Elise Mertens: 6-3, 6-1
- Linda Fruhvirtova beat Mayar Sherif: 0-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Dayana Yastremska (WC) beat Anna Bondar: 6-3, 6-4
- Evgeniya Rodina beat Alize Cornet: 6-2, 7-5
- Linda Noskova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-6 (7), 6-1
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Anna Blinkova beat Ann Li (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Emma Navarro vs. Catherine McNally
- Maryna Zanevska vs. Lauren Davis
- Sloane Stephens vs. Sofia Kenin
- Claire Liu vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Karolina Muchova
- Laura Siegemund vs. Madison Brengle
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Peyton Stearns
- Tatjana Maria vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Rebecca Marino
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Danka Kovinic vs. Emma Raducanu
- Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Dalma Galfi vs. Danielle Collins
- Bernarda Pera vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Jule Niemeier
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Alycia Parks
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jil Teichmann
- Elizabeth Mandlik vs. Alison Riske-Amritraj
- Rebecca Peterson vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Lin Zhu
- Katie Volynets vs. Shelby Rogers
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