Indian Wells: Muchova through to second round, meets Azarenka next
The Czech defeated Yulia Putintseva 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Thursday
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Czech Karolina Muchova reached the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells by edging out Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Thursday.
Muchova, ranked No 76, will play No 14 seed and former world No 1 Victoria Azarenka next.
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8,800,000):
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Rebecca Marino: 6-2, 6-2
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 7-5
- Sorana Cirstea beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Emma Raducanu beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 6-3
- Tatjana Maria beat Jasmine Paolini: 7-5, 6-1
- Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ysaline Bonaventure (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Katerina Siniakova beat Jule Niemeier: 7-5, 6-4
- Dalma Galfi (LL) beat Danielle Collins: 6-4, 6-4
- Bernarda Pera beat Lucia Bronzetti: 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Jil Teichmann beat Ashlyn Krueger (Q): 6-1, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Alycia Parks: 6-1, 6-1
- Elizabeth Mandlik (WC) beat Alison Riske-Amritraj: 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (1)
- Rebecca Peterson beat Marta Kostyuk: 7-5, 5-7, 7-5
- Camila Giorgi beat Arantxa Rus (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Lesia Tsurenko (Q) beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 6-3
- Shelby Rogers beat Katie Volynets (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
- 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. Caty McNally
- Maryna Zanevska vs. Lauren Davis
- Sloane Stephens vs. Sofia Kenin
- Claire Liu vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Peyton Stearns
- Laura Siegemund vs. Madison Brengle
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