Tokyo: Kessler advances to second round to face Kasatkina

American McCartney Kessler advanced to the second round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open by winning against Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-3, 6-3 at the Ariake Coliseum on Tuesday.

Kessler, ranked No 73, will face No 3 seed Daria Kasatkina next.

Tokyo WTA 500, other first-round matches (Ariake Coliseum, hard, USD 922,573):

• Sofia Kenin (WC) beat Xinyu Wang (10): 6-1, 6-4
• Bianca Andreescu (WC) beat Mei Yamaguchi (Q): 7-5, 6-3
• Leylah Fernandez (8) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (LL): 5-7, 6-2, 5-2 ret.
• Zeynep Sonmez (Q) beat Magdalena Frech (7): 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Varvara Gracheva beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Veronika Kudermetova: 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Katie Boulter vs. Priscilla Hon
• Mika Stojsavljevic vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Nao Hibino vs. Clara Tauson
• Kyoka Okamura vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Sara Saito vs. Sayaka Ishii

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