Miami Open: Liu makes second round

American qualifier Claire Liu won against Croat Petra Martic 6-4, 6-1 to move into the second round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday evening.

Liu, ranked No 114, will play No 10 seed Daria Kasatkina next.

Miami WTA 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Naomi Osaka
• Storm Hunter vs. Martina Trevisan
• Katie Volynets vs. Sofia Kenin
• Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Arantxa Rus
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Donna Vekic vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Shelby Rogers vs. Linda Fruhvirtova: wednesday
• Bernarda Pera vs. Danielle Collins: wednesday
• Tatjana Maria vs. Emiliana Arango: wednesday
• Sloane Stephens beat Angelique Kerber: 6-2, 6-3
• Elina Avanesyan beat Erika Andreeva (WC): 6-0, 3-6, 6-1
• Lin Zhu beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-2, 6-4
• Maria Timofeeva (Q) beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-3, 6-3
• Camila Giorgi beat Magdalena Frech: 6-4, 6-2
• Diane Parry beat Jaqueline Cristian: 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Yulia Putintseva beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Magda Linette: 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Paula Badosa beat Simona Halep (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Xiyu Wang beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Q): 6-1, 6-3
• Brenda Fruhvirtova (WC) beat Maria Lourdes Carle (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Clara Burel: 6-1, 6-4
• Katerina Siniakova beat Ana Bogdan: 6-2, 6-4
• Laura Siegemund (Q) beat Aleksandra Krunic (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Diana Shnaider beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-3, 6-3
• Clara Tauson (Q) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
• Peyton Stearns beat Yafan Wang: 6-2, 6-3
• Xinyu Wang beat Hailey Baptiste (WC): 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Daria Saville beat Shuai Zhang: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
• Yue Yuan beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 6-2