Indian Wells: Merida runner-up Peterson beats Austin champ Kostyuk to reach second round
The Swede will play No 22 seed Shuai Zhang in the next round
Rebecca Peterson Zuma Panoramic
In a match-up between two in-form players, Swede Rebecca Peterson, who reached the final of the Merida Open last month, defeated Sunday’s Austin Open winner Marta Kostyuk 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Wednesday.
Peterson, ranked No 103 in the world and came through the qualifying draw, needed three hours for the win. She is through to the second round and will play No 22 seed Shuai Zhang next.
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8,800,000):
- Camila Giorgi beat Arantxa Rus (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Lesia Tsurenko (Q) beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 6-3
- Shelby Rogers beat Katie Volynets (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
- Xiyu Wang beat Olga Danilovic (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Katie Swan (Q): 7-6 (6), 7-5
- Xinyu Wang beat Elise Mertens: 6-3, 6-1
- Linda Fruhvirtova beat Mayar Sherif: 0-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Dayana Yastremska (WC) beat Anna Bondar: 6-3, 6-4
- Evgeniya Rodina beat Alize Cornet: 6-2, 7-5
- Linda Noskova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-6 (7), 6-1
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Anna Blinkova beat Ann Li (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Emma Navarro vs. Catherine McNally
- Maryna Zanevska vs. Lauren Davis
- Sloane Stephens vs. Sofia Kenin
- Claire Liu vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Karolina Muchova
- Laura Siegemund vs. Madison Brengle
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Peyton Stearns
- Tatjana Maria vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Rebecca Marino
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Danka Kovinic vs. Emma Raducanu
- Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Dalma Galfi vs. Danielle Collins
- Bernarda Pera vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Jule Niemeier
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jil Teichmann
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Alycia Parks
- Elizabeth Mandlik vs. Alison Riske-Amritraj
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