Midland Open: Townsend through to second round

American Taylor Townsend, the No 4 seed, defeated Cypriot Raluka Serban 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the second round of the Midland Open at the Greater Midland Tennis Center on Tuesday evening.

Townsend, ranked No 66, will play Ukrainian Yulia Starodubtsewa next.

Midland WTA 125, other first-round results (Greater Midland Tennis Center, USD 115.000, most recent results first):

• Katie Volynets vs. Tatiana Prozorova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Heather Watson
• Rebecca Marino vs. Emiliana Arango
• Mccartney Kessler vs. Emina Bektas
• Emma Navarro vs. Chloe Beck
• Robin Anderson vs. Elvina Kalieva
• Arianne Hartono vs. Jana Fett
• Victoria Hu vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Katrina Scott vs. Renata Zarazua
• Katherine Sebov beat Lulu Sun (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
• Ashlyn Krueger (5) beat Varvara Lepchenko (Q): 6-1, 1-0 ret.
• Peyton Stearns (2) beat Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (LL): 6-0, 6-0
• Yulia Starodubtsewa beat Sophie Chang (WC): 3-6, 6-1, 6-0
• Alycia Parks (3) beat Ann Li: 6-2, 6-1
• Carole Monnet beat Iryna Shymanovich: 6-4 ret.