WTA Guadalajara: Azarenka to meet top seed Badosa next
Victoria Azarenka won against Elina Avanesyan 6-4, 6-2 on Monday evening and will face top seed Paula Badosa in the next round
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
