Indian Wells: Kalinskaya beats rising American Parks, to meet Pliskova next
The Russian needed only 56 minutes to beat Alycia Parks in straight sets
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Russian Anna Kalinskaya defeated rising American Alycia Parks 6-1, 6-1 to reach the second round of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old Parks won her first WTA Tour in Lyon last month with a win over France’s Caroline Garcia and has climbed to No 55 in the rankings. However, since then her record on the tour has dropped to 1-4 with the latest loss.
Kalinskaya, ranked No 60, needed only 56 minutes for the win and will play No 17 seed Karolina Pliskova next.
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8,800,000, most recent results first):
- Rebecca Peterson beat Marta Kostyuk: 7-5, 5-7, 7-5
- 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
- Elizabeth Mandlik vs. Alison Riske-Amritraj
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