Indian Wells WTA 1000: Avanesyan reaches second round

Armenian Elina Avanesyan won against American Lauren Davis 6-4, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Indian Wells WTA 1000 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Friday evening.

Avanesyan, ranked No 39, will face No 19 seed Donna Vekic 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
• Iva Jovic vs. Julia Grabher: friday
• McCartney Kessler beat Anna Blinkova: 6-1, 6-2
• Anastasia Potapova beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-5
• Kimberly Birrell (Q) beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Veronika Kudermetova: 6-2, 6-3
• Belinda Bencic (WC) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-1, 6-1
• Sonay Kartal (LL) beat Varvara Lepchenko (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-2
• Sorana Cirstea beat Maya Joint (Q): 6-2, 7-5
• 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