Alycia Parks through to second round in Montreal, meets Bencic next

Qualifier Alycia Parks reached the second round of the Canadian Open by winning against Lauren Davis 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 at Stade IGA in Montreal on Tuesday evening.

Parks, ranked No 47, will face Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 12 seed, next.

Into Round ✌️@TheRealAParks picks up the three set win over Davis.#NBO23 pic.twitter.com/kF7wFqcgfA

— wta (@WTA) August 8, 2023

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Montreal WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2,788,468):

• Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Danielle Collins (Q) beat Elina Svitolina: 6-2, 6-2
• Katie Boulter (Q) beat Rebecca Marino (WC): 6-3, 6-1
• Sloane Stephens beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Jennifer Brady beat Jelena Ostapenko: 7-6 (7), 0-6, 7-6 (8)
• Madison Keys (13) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• Belinda Bencic beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Victoria Azarenka (16) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-0
• Marie Bouzkova beat Kayla Day (Q): 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini beat Donna Vekic: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Karolina Pliskova beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-2
• Camila Giorgi vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Mayar Sherif
• Petra Martic vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Magdalena Frech
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Anna Blinkova vs. Shuai Zhang
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
• Bernarda Pera vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Elise Mertens vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Kimberly Birrell