Giorgi spoils the party for Boulter in Indian Wells

Italian Camila Giorgi reached the second round of the Indian Wells by winning against Katie Boulter 6-3, 6-2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday night.

It was a stark snap back to reality for Boulter, who had won her second career title on the WTA Tour last week in San Diego.

Giorgi, ranked No 106, will play No 26 seed Linda Noskova 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
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Erika Andreeva vs. Danielle Collins
• Mccartney Kessler vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Lin Zhu
• Bernarda Pera vs. Daria Saville: wednesday
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Katie Volynets: wednesday
• Mai Hontama vs. Shuai Zhang: wednesday
• Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Yafan Wang: 6-4, 6-0
• Tatjana Maria beat Arantxa Rus: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 6-1, 6-1
• Angelique Kerber beat Petra Martic: 6-3, 6-4