Miami Open: Bencic outlasts Yastremska

Swiss Belinda Bencic edged out Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to reach the second round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday night.

Bencic, ranked No 45, trailed 5-3 in the final set but won four straight games to set up a clash with No 22 seed Elina Svitolina next.

Miami WTA 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):

• Mayar Sherif vs. Lulu Sun
• Victoria Azarenka beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-3, 6-1
• Moyuka Uchijima beat Suzan Lamens: 6-4, 6-3
• Peyton Stearns beat Katie Boulter: 6-4, 6-2
• Julia Grabher beat Tyra Caterina Grant (WC): 6-4, 6-4
• Alexandra Eala (WC) beat Katie Volynets: 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Caroline Garcia beat Anna Bondar (Q): 6-0, 7-6 (5)
• Elina Avanesyan beat Erika Andreeva (WC): 6-1, 6-7 (4), 6-4
• Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 6-3, 6-2
• McCartney Kessler beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
• Emma Raducanu beat Sayaka Ishii (WC): 6-2, 6-1
• Veronika Kudermetova beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Victoria Mboko (WC) beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 5-7, 6-3
• Kimberly Birrell (Q) beat Anastasia Potapova: 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Anna Blinkova beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Ann Li: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Renata Zarazua: 6-3, 6-2
• Hailey Baptiste (WC) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1
• Rebeka Masarova (Q) beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5
• Sofia Kenin beat Petra Kvitova (WC): 6-4, 7-5
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Polina Kudermetova: 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2
• Lauren Davis beat Aoi Ito (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• Linda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Claire Liu (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
• Rebecca Sramkova beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
• Naomi Osaka beat Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-4, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Magda Linette beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Alycia Parks beat Varvara Gracheva: 3-6, 7-6, 6-3
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Catherine McNally: 6-3, 2-6, 6-3