Monterrey Open: Garcia goes through in straight sets
Caroline Garcia cruised past Kaja Juvan in straight sets on Tuesday to kick off her Monterrey campaign.
October 18, 2022, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO: Caroline Garcia of France in action during the second round of the 2022 WTA Guadalajara Open Akron WTA 1000 tennis tournament against Rebecca Marino of Canada (Zuma/Panoramic)
Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the top seed, beat Slovenian Kaja Juvan 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Monterrey Open at the Estadio GNP Seguros on Tuesday night.
Garcia, ranked No 5, will face Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz next.
Monterrey WTA 250, other first-round matchups and results:
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-4, 7-5
- Emma Navarro (WC) beat Leolia Jeanjean: 6-4, 6-2
- Xinyu Wang beat Sachia Vickery (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Donna Vekic (3) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 2-6, 5-0 ret.
- Kamilla Rakhimova (Q) beat Katerina Siniakova (6): 7-6 (6), 2-6, 7-6 (5)
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Xiyu Wang: 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-4
- Mayar Sherif (7) beat Camila Osorio: 7-6 (5), 4-2 ret.
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto (8) beat Marina Bassols Ribera (LL): 7-5, 6-2
- Tatjana Maria beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 6-0
- Elise Mertens (4) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-0, 6-4
- Rebecca Marino beat Fernanda Contreras Gomez (WC): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4)
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Marie Bouzkova (2): 6-4, 6-2
- Ysaline Bonaventure beat Despina Papamichail (Q): 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1
- Lin Zhu (5) beat Anna Bondar: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Caroline Dolehide (Q) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-1, 6-0