Madrid Open: Bronzetti beats qualifier Gracheva to reach second round

Italian Lucia Bronzetti beat French qualifier Varvara Gracheva 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the Madrid Open at the Caja Magica.

Bronzetti, ranked No 46, will face No 4 seed Elena Rybakina next.

Madrid WTA 1000, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):

• Hailey Baptiste vs. Daria Saville
• Sara Bejlek vs. Anna Blinkova
• Robin Montgomery vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Clara Burel vs. Olga Danilovic
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Taylor Townsend
• Nao Hibino vs. Ashlyn Krueger: wednesday
• Magdalena Frech vs. Jaqueline Cristian: wednesday
• Sara Errani vs. Caroline Wozniacki: wednesday
• Caroline Dolehide beat Zhuoxuan Bai (LL): 6-3, 6-3
• Magda Linette beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Maria Lourdes Carle (Q) beat Emma Raducanu (WC): 6-2, 6-2
• Xinyu Wang beat Viktoriya Tomova: 5-7, 7-5, 6-4
• Cristina Bucsa beat Harriet Dart (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Shelby Rogers beat Shuai Zhang: 6-3, 6-2
• Emiliana Arango (Q) beat Amanda Anisimova (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Naomi Osaka beat Greet Minnen (LL): 6-4, 6-1
• Donna Vekic beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 7-5, 6-2
• Mayar Sherif beat Lauren Davis: 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-4
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Q) beat Paula Badosa: 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Sloane Stephens beat Martina Trevisan: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (WC) beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 6-3
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Sofia Kenin: 6-3, 6-4
• Xiyu Wang beat Ana Bogdan: 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Anastasia Potapova beat Diana Shnaider: 7-5, 6-4
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Linda Fruhvirtova (WC): 6-4, 7-6
• Tatjana Maria beat Peyton Stearns: 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Nadia Podoroska beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-2, 7-6 (2)
• Arantxa Rus beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (WC): 7-5, 6-3
• Alexandra Eala (WC) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 2-6, 6-4, 6-4