Mérida Open: Stephens gets first win of 2023
Sloane Stephens beat Leolia Jeanjean 6-1, 6-3 on Tuesday night and will face the winner of the match between German Tatjana Maria and Russian lucky loser Varvara Gracheva in the next round
Sloane Stephens, Imahe Credit: AI/ Reuters/ Panoramic
American Sloane Stephens, the second seed, beat French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the Mérida Open at the Yucatan Country Club on Tuesday night.
It was the 2017 US Open champion’s first win of the season after first-round losses at Auckland, Hobart and the Australian Open, all in straight sets.
Stephens, ranked No 41, will face the winner of the match between German Tatjana Maria and Russian lucky loser Varvara Gracheva next.
Mérida WTA 250, other first-round results (Yucatan Country Club, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):
- Fernanda Contreras Gomez vs. Alycia Parks
- Magda Linette vs. Camila Osorio
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Rebecca Peterson
- Tatjana Maria vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Panna Udvardy beat Jule Niemeier: 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5)
- Katerina Siniakova (4) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 7-5 ret.
- Xinyu Wang beat Elina Avanesyan (Q): 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto (7) beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-0, 6-3
- Kimberly Birrell (Q) beat Anna Bondar: 7-6 (8), 6-1
- Camila Giorgi beat Mayar Sherif (6): 6-4, 6-2
- Katie Volynets (WC) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
- Xiyu Wang beat Alison Riske-Amritraj (8): 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (1)
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Ana Konjuh (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2
- Catherine McNally beat Lin Zhu (3): 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 6-1
- Ysaline Bonaventure beat Simona Waltert (WC): 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
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