WTA Guadalajara: Tomljanovic eases past local wild card Gomez
Ajla Tomljanovic will face the winner of the match between Pole Magda Linette and American Madison Keys, the No 13 seed, in the next round
Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic reached the second round of the Guadalajara Open by defeating Mexican wildcard Fernanda Contreras Gomez 6-2, 6-1 at the Centro Panamericano de Tenis on Monday night.
Ranked No 35 in the world, Tomljanovic lost only nine points on her serve in the matches, which lasted one hour and two minutes.
The 29-year-old will play either No.13-seeded American Madison Keys or Poland’s Magda Linette in the second round.
Guadalajara WTA 1000, other first-round matches
- Sloane Stephens beat Linda Fruhvirtova (Q): 6-0, 6-2
- Belinda Bencic (10) beat Leylah Fernandez: 7-5, 6-7 (10), 6-3
- 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 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
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