Madrid Open: Joint advances to second round
Maya Joint edged out Carlota Martinez Cirez 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 on Wednesday and will face No 11 seed Emma Navarro in the next round
Maya Joint (Zuma/Panoramic)
Australian qualifier Maya Joint reached the second round of the Madrid Open by edging out Spanish wildcard Carlota Martinez Cirez 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 at the Caja Mágica on Wednesday.
Joint, ranked No 78, will face No 11 seed Emma Navarro next.
Madrid WTA 1000, other first-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 7.854.000, most recent results first):
- McCartney Kessler vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Sonay Kartal
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Olga Danilovic
- Eva Lys vs. Teodora Kostovic
- Francesca Jones vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Robin Montgomery
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Suzan Lamens vs. Emma Raducanu
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Rebeka Masarova
- Anna Blinkova vs. Panna Udvardy
- Xinyu Wang vs. Maria Sakkari: wednesday
- Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Rebecca Sramkova: wednesday
- Belinda Bencic vs. Zeynep Sonmez: wednesday
- Alycia Parks vs. Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva: wednesday
- Bernarda Pera vs. Jana Fett: wednesday
- Anastasija Sevastova beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-4, 7-5
- Katie Volynets beat Petra Kvitova: 6-4, 6-0
- Diane Parry (Q) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-3, 6-4
- Ann Li beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Peyton Stearns beat Kimberly Birrell: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
- Camila Osorio beat Emiliana Arango (WC): 6-3, 6-3
- Lulu Sun beat Varvara Gracheva: 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Katie Boulter beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
- Hailey Baptiste (WC) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (4)
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 6-1
- Marie Bouzkova beat Renata Zarazua: 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Naomi Osaka: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
- Alexandra Eala (WC) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-2
- Caroline Dolehide beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-4, 6-4
