Indian Wells: Blinkova ousts Pliskova in tight first-round clash

Russian Anna Blinkova moved into the second round of the Indian Wells by edging out wildcard Karolina Pliskova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday night.

Blinkova, ranked No 45, will play No 5 seed Jessica Pegula next.

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):

• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Peyton Stearns
• Sloane Stephens vs. Mayar Sherif
• Diana Shnaider vs. Ana Bogdan
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Liv Hovde vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Diane Parry vs. Martina Trevisan
• Xinyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Oceane Dodin

• Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan
• Naomi Osaka vs. Sara Errani: thursday
• Taylor Townsend vs. Magda Linette: thursday
• Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Robin Montgomery (Q): 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
• Nao Hibino (Q) beat Venus Williams (WC): 2-6, 6-3, 6-0
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Lin Zhu: 7-6 (6), 6-1
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz (Q) beat Mccartney Kessler (WC): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Danielle Collins beat Erika Andreeva (Q): 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6)
• Nadia Podoroska (LL) beat Ashlyn Krueger (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Rebeka Masarova (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Greet Minnen: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
• Clara Burel beat Xiyu Wang: 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Magdalena Frech: 6-2, 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-3
• Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Daria Saville: 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5)
• Camila Giorgi beat Katie Boulter: 6-3, 6-2
• Katie Volynets (WC) beat Mirra Andreeva: 7-5, 7-5
• Mai Hontama (Q) beat Shuai Zhang: 5-7, 6-2, 6-0
• Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Yafan Wang: 6-4, 6-0
• Tatjana Maria beat Arantxa Rus: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 6-1, 6-1
• Angelique Kerber beat Petra Martic: 6-3, 6-4