WTA Toronto: Stearns victorious over Blinkova

American Peyton Stearns defeated Russian Anna Blinkova (6-4, 6-3) to reach the second round of the WTA National Bank Open at the Aviva Centre on Wednesday afternoon, producing a remarkable 12 break points in the process.

Stearns, ranked No 53 in the world, will face No 7 seed Madison Keys next, on Thursday, in what is sure to be a tough test.

WTA National Bank Open, other first-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Shuai Zhang vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Bernarda Pera vs. Katie Boulter
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Yue Yuan
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Magda Linette vs. Rebecca Marino
• Ons Jabeur vs. Naomi Osaka
• Harriet Dart vs. Diana Shnaider: wednesday
• Erika Andreeva vs. Marina Stakusic: wednesday
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Marie Bouzkova: wednesday
• Paula Badosa beat Clara Tauson: 6-1, 6-4
• Elise Mertens beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Greet Minnen (Q) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 6-2
• Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Louisa Chirico (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Bianca Andreescu (WC): 0-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Taylor Townsend (LL) beat Dayana Yastremska (16): 6-3, 3-1 ret.
• Karolina Pliskova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-4, 7-6 (10)
• Victoria Azarenka (12) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-2, 6-2
• Yafan Wang (Q) beat Sofia Kenin: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
• Elina Svitolina beat Shelby Rogers: 6-0, 6-2
• Moyuka Uchijima (Q) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Magdalena Frech beat Anastasia Potapova: 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
• Marta Kostyuk (11) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-0, 6-2