Miami Open: Townsend moves into second round

Qualifier Taylor Townsend won against Ann Li 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Tuesday night.

Townsend, ranked No 90, will play No 19 seed Yulia Putintseva next.

Miami WTA 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):

• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Mayar Sherif vs. Lulu Sun
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Belinda Bencic
• Katie Boulter vs. Peyton Stearns
• Tyra Caterina Grant vs. Julia Grabher
• Alexandra Eala vs. Katie Volynets
• Suzan Lamens vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Caroline Garcia vs. Anna Bondar
• Erika Andreeva vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Bernarda Pera
• McCartney Kessler vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Sayaka Ishii vs. Emma Raducanu
• Camila Osorio vs. Victoria Mboko
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Anna Blinkova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Renata Zarazua: 6-3, 6-2
• Hailey Baptiste (WC) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1
• Rebeka Masarova (Q) beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5
• Sofia Kenin beat Petra Kvitova (WC): 6-4, 7-5
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Polina Kudermetova: 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2
• Lauren Davis beat Aoi Ito (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• Linda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Claire Liu (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
• Rebecca Sramkova beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
• Naomi Osaka beat Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-4, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Magda Linette beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Alycia Parks beat Varvara Gracheva: 3-6, 7-6, 6-3
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Catherine McNally: 6-3, 2-6, 6-3