Madrid Open: Bejlek upsets Blinokva to make second round
Sara Bejlek beat Anna Blinkova 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday evening. She’ll play No 24 seed Anna Kalinskaya in the next round
Sara Bejlek, Colina Open 2023
Qualifier Sara Bejlek advanced to the second round of the Madrid Open by beating Russian Anna Blinkova 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at the Caja Magica.
Bejlek, ranked No 136, will play No 24 seed Anna Kalinskaya next.
Madrid WTA 1000, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Daria Saville: wednesday
- Robin Montgomery (WC) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-2, 6-2
- Clara Burel vs. Olga Danilovic: wednesday
- Mirra Andreeva beat Taylor Townsend: 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
- Ashlyn Krueger beat Nao Hibino: 6-4, 6-4
- Jaqueline Cristian (Q) beat Magdalena Frech: 7-5, 6-2
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Sara Errani (Q) beat Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 3-6, 7-5, 7-5
- Caroline Dolehide beat Zhuoxuan Bai (LL): 6-3, 6-3
- Magda Linette beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Maria Lourdes Carle (Q) beat Emma Raducanu (WC): 6-2, 6-2
- Xinyu Wang beat Viktoriya Tomova: 5-7, 7-5, 6-4
- Cristina Bucsa beat Harriet Dart (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Shelby Rogers beat Shuai Zhang: 6-3, 6-2
- Emiliana Arango (Q) beat Amanda Anisimova (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Naomi Osaka beat Greet Minnen (LL): 6-4, 6-1
- Donna Vekic beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 7-5, 6-2
- Mayar Sherif beat Lauren Davis: 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Yulia Putintseva beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-4
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Q) beat Paula Badosa: 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Sloane Stephens beat Martina Trevisan: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
- Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (WC) beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 6-3
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Sofia Kenin: 6-3, 6-4
- Xiyu Wang beat Ana Bogdan: 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Anastasia Potapova beat Diana Shnaider: 7-5, 6-4
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Linda Fruhvirtova (WC): 6-4, 7-6
- Tatjana Maria beat Peyton Stearns: 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Nadia Podoroska beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-2, 7-6 (2)
- Arantxa Rus beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (WC): 7-5, 6-3
- Alexandra Eala (WC) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
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