WTA Indian Wells: Kerber navigates Martic to make second round

German Angelique Kerber reached the second round of the Indian Wells by winning against Croat Petra Martic 6-3, 6-4 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday evening.

Angelique Kerber will face No 10 seed Jelena Ostapenko next.

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):

• Nadia Podoroska vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Nao Hibino vs. Venus Williams
• Taylor Townsend vs. Magda Linette
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Peyton Stearns
• Emma Raducanu vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Liv Hovde vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Greet Minnen
• Diana Shnaider vs. Ana Bogdan
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Diane Parry vs. Martina Trevisan
• Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Xiyu Wang vs. Clara Burel
• Magdalena Frech vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Xinyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Naomi Osaka vs. Sara Errani
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Oceane Dodin
• Sloane Stephens vs. Mayar Sherif
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan
• Robin Montgomery vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Erika Andreeva vs. Danielle Collins
• Mccartney Kessler vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Lin Zhu
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Bernarda Pera vs. Daria Saville
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Katie Volynets
• Camila Giorgi vs. Katie Boulter
• Mai Hontama vs. Shuai Zhang
• Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Yafan Wang: 6-4, 6-0
• Tatjana Maria vs. Arantxa Rus: wednesday
• Marie Bouzkova beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 6-1, 6-1