Madrid Open: Bronzetti beats qualifier Gracheva to reach second round
Lucia Bronzetti beat Varvara Gracheva 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday evening. She’ll face No 4 seed Elena Rybakina in the next round
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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