WTA Guadalajara: Stephens eases past qualifier Fruhvirtova, meets Bencic next

Sloane Stephens dropped only two games en route to beating Chennai Open champion Linda Fruhvirtova and will face Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 10 seed, next

American Sloane Stephens advanced to the second round of the Guadalajara Open by beating Czech qualifier Linda Fruhvirtova 6-0, 6-2 at the Centro Panamericano de Tenis on Tuesday night.

Stephens, ranked No 50, will play Swiss Belinda Bencic. The No 10 seed defeated Canadian Leylah Fernandez in a three-set battle in the late evening match.

Guadalajara WTA 1000, other first-round matches:

  • Petra Kvitova (16) beat Bernarda Pera: 6-3, 7-5
  • Camila Osorio beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (15): 6-4, 7-6 (8)
  • Elise Mertens beat Asia Muhammad (Q): 6-3, 6-2
  • Marta Kostyuk beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-1, 6-3
  • Bianca Andreescu beat Jil Teichmann: 6-2, 6-4
  • Rebecca Marino (Q) beat Ann Li: 6-2, 7-6 (2)
  • Liudmila Samsonova beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-1, 7-5
  • Lin Zhu beat Alize Cornet: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
  • Victoria Azarenka (LL) beat Elina Avanesyan (LL): 6-4, 6-2
  • Elena Rybakina vs. Karolina Pliskova
  • Eugenie Bouchard vs. Kayla Day
  • Donna Vekic vs. Laura Pigossi
  • Shelby Rogers vs. Martina Trevisan
  • Marie Bouzkova vs. Tereza Martincova
  • Anna Kalinskaya vs. Barbora Krejcikova
  • Danielle Collins vs. Caroline Dolehide
  • Magda Linette vs. Madison Keys
  • Magdalena Frech vs. Yulia Putintseva
  • Lauren Davis vs. Jelena Ostapenko
  • Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Anastasia Potapova
  • Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Katerina Siniakova
  • Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Fernanda Contreras Gomez

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