Indian Wells: Kenin beats Stephens in battle of former Grand Slam champions

Wildcard Sofia Kenin advanced to the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells by beating fellow American Sloane Stephens in a first round battle between two former Grand Slam champions on Thursday.

Kenin, now ranked 170th in the world, won 6-4, 6-1 in one hour and 21 minutes to advance to the second round.

The American will face another Grand Slam winner – the reigning Wimbledon champion and 10th seed Elena Rybakina for a spot in the third round.

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8,800,000, most recent results first):

• Claire Liu beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (LL): 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Peyton Stearns (WC) beat Rebeka Masarova (Q): 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Madison Brengle beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Rebecca Marino: 6-2, 6-2
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 7-5
• Karolina Muchova beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
• Sorana Cirstea beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Emma Raducanu beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 6-3
• Tatjana Maria beat Jasmine Paolini: 7-5, 6-1
• Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ysaline Bonaventure (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Katerina Siniakova beat Jule Niemeier: 7-5, 6-4
• Dalma Galfi (LL) beat Danielle Collins: 6-4, 6-4
• Bernarda Pera beat Lucia Bronzetti: 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
• Jil Teichmann beat Ashlyn Krueger (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Anna Kalinskaya beat Alycia Parks: 6-1, 6-1
• Elizabeth Mandlik (WC) beat Alison Riske-Amritraj: 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (1)
• Rebecca Peterson beat Marta Kostyuk: 7-5, 5-7, 7-5
• Camila Giorgi beat Arantxa Rus (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko (Q) beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 6-3
• Shelby Rogers beat Katie Volynets (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
• Xiyu Wang beat Olga Danilovic (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Katie Swan (Q): 7-6 (6), 7-5
• Xinyu Wang beat Elise Mertens: 6-3, 6-1
• Linda Fruhvirtova beat Mayar Sherif: 0-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Dayana Yastremska (WC) beat Anna Bondar: 6-3, 6-4
• Evgeniya Rodina beat Alize Cornet: 6-2, 7-5
• Linda Noskova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-6 (7), 6-1
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Anna Blinkova beat Ann Li (WC): 6-1, 6-2
• Emma Navarro vs. Catherine McNally
• Maryna Zanevska vs. Magdalena Frech

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