Mérida Open: Parks books spot in second round

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