WTA Guadalajara: Azarenka to meet top seed Badosa next

Former world No 1 Victoria Azarenka defeated Russian lucky loser Elina Avanesyan 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Guadalajara Open at the Centro Panamericano de Tenis on Monday.

The two-time Australian Open champion now ranked 37th in the world, Azarenka is thorugh to face top seed Paula Badosa next.

Guadalajara WTA 1000, first-round matches

• Liudmila Samsonova beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-1, 7-5
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Fernanda Contreras Gomez
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Tereza Martincova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Danielle Collins vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Lauren Davis vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Eugenie Bouchard vs. Kayla Day
• Donna Vekic vs. Laura Pigossi
• Belinda Bencic vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Elena Rybakina vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Shelby Rogers vs. Martina Trevisan
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Magda Linette vs. Madison Keys
• Sloane Stephens vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Camila Osorio
• Bernarda Pera vs. Petra Kvitova
• Asia Muhammad vs. Elise Mertens
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Jil Teichmann
• Ann Li vs. Rebecca Marino
• Lin Zhu vs. Alize Cornet

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