Mérida Open: Parks books spot in second round
Alycia Parks edged out Fernanda Contreras Gomez 7-6 (7), 3-6, 7-5 on Wednesday night and will face Swede qualifier Rebecca Peterson in the next round
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American Alycia Parks, the No 5 seed, moved into the second round of the Mérida Open by edging out Mexican wildcard Fernanda Contreras Gomez 7-6 (7), 3-6, 7-5 at the Yucatan Country Club on Wednesday night.
Parks, ranked No 51, will play Swede qualifier Rebecca Peterson next.
Mérida WTA 250, other first-round results (Yucatan Country Club, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):
- Rebecca Peterson beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-3, 7-5
- Magda Linette (1) beat Camila Osorio: 6-7 (2), 7-5, 6-2
- Varvara Gracheva (LL) beat Tatjana Maria: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Sloane Stephens (2) beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-1, 6-3
- Panna Udvardy beat Jule Niemeier: 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5)
- 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
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