Mérida Open: Udvardy advances to second round

Hungarian Panna Udvardy reached the second round of the Mérida Open by winning against German Jule Niemeier 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5) at the Yucatan Country Club on Tuesday night.

Udvardy, ranked No 91, will face the winner of the match between Pole Magda Linette, the top seed, and Colombian Camila Osorio next.

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Mérida WTA 250, other first-round results (Yucatan Country Club, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):

• Fernanda Contreras Gomez vs. Alycia Parks
• Magda Linette vs. Camila Osorio
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Rebecca Peterson
• Tatjana Maria vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Sloane Stephens: tuesday
• Katerina Siniakova (4) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 7-5 ret.
• Xinyu Wang beat Elina Avanesyan (Q): 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto (7) beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-0, 6-3
• Kimberly Birrell (Q) beat Anna Bondar: 7-6 (8), 6-1
• Camila Giorgi beat Mayar Sherif (6): 6-4, 6-2
• Katie Volynets (WC) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
• Xiyu Wang beat Alison Riske-Amritraj (8): 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (1)
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Ana Konjuh (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2
• Catherine McNally beat Lin Zhu (3): 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 6-1
• Ysaline Bonaventure beat Simona Waltert (WC): 4-6, 7-5, 6-1