Indian Wells: Dodin edges Avanesyan in deciding tiebreak

Frenchwoman Oceane Dodin edged out Russian Elina Avanesyan 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) to move into the second round of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday night.

Dodin, ranked No 85, will face No 11 seed Daria Kasatkina 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
• Diana Shnaider vs. Ana Bogdan
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Peyton Stearns
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan: friday
• Sloane Stephens vs. Mayar Sherif: friday
• Caroline Dolehide beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-2, 6-0
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Liv Hovde (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Diane Parry beat Martina Trevisan: 7-5, 6-3
• Xinyu Wang beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-0, 6-4
• Naomi Osaka beat Sara Errani (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Magda Linette: 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Anna Blinkova beat Karolina Pliskova (WC): 6-1, 2-6, 6-4
• 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