Indian Wells: Wildcard Stearns into second round, meets former champ Andreescu next

American wildcard Peyton Stearns edged out Spanish qualifier Rebeka Masarova 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Thursday.

This was the first WTA 1000 level win for Stearns, who is a former NCAA champion.

Stearns, ranked No 126 in the world, will play No 32 seed and former champion Bianca Andreescu, of Canada, next.

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8,800,000, most recent results first):

• Madison Brengle beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Rebecca Marino: 6-2, 6-2
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 7-5
• Karolina Muchova beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
• 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. Magdalena Frech
• Sloane Stephens vs. Sofia Kenin
• Claire Liu vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova

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