Indian Wells WTA 1000: Cirstea overcomes second set comeback to book spot in second round

Romanian Sorana Cirstea won against Australian qualifier Maya Joint 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the second round of the Indian Wells WTA 1000 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday.

Cirstea, ranked No 111, will face No 10 seed Emma Navarro next.

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):

• Alycia Parks vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Lauren Davis vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Anna Blinkova vs. McCartney Kessler
• Iva Jovic vs. Julia Grabher
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Belinda Bencic vs. Tatjana Maria: thursday
• Sonay Kartal vs. Varvara Lepchenko: thursday
• Moyuka Uchijima beat Emma Raducanu: 6-3, 6-2
• Catherine McNally beat Ajla Tomljanovic (Q): 6-4 ret.
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Olga Danilovic: 6-2, 6-3
• Sofia Kenin beat Maddison Inglis (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Polina Kudermetova beat Claire Liu (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 7-5
• Dayana Yastremska beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-4
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Katie Volynets: 0-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Robin Montgomery (WC) beat Jule Niemeier (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Camila Osorio beat Naomi Osaka: 6-4, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka beat Clervie Ngounoue (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• Katerina Siniakova beat Maria Lourdes Carle (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Caroline Dolehide (WC) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Xinyu Wang beat Mayar Sherif: 6-4, 7-5
• Magda Linette beat Peyton Stearns: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Suzan Lamens beat Marie Bouzkova: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Whitney Osuigwe (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Ann Li: 7-5, 3-6, 6-1
• Caroline Garcia beat Bernarda Pera (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Renata Zarazua: 6-4, 1-0 ret.
• Lulu Sun beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (2)
• Varvara Gracheva beat Petra Kvitova (WC): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4