Indian Wells: Maria moves into second round

German Tatjana Maria won against Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus 7-6 (5), 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday evening.

Maria, ranked No 46, will face No 13 seed Jasmine Paolini next.

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

• Nadia Podoroska vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Nao Hibino vs. Venus Williams
• Taylor Townsend vs. Magda Linette
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Peyton Stearns
• Emma Raducanu vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Liv Hovde vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Greet Minnen
• Diana Shnaider vs. Ana Bogdan
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Diane Parry vs. Martina Trevisan
• Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Xiyu Wang vs. Clara Burel
• Magdalena Frech vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Xinyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Naomi Osaka vs. Sara Errani
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Oceane Dodin
• Sloane Stephens vs. Mayar Sherif
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan
• Robin Montgomery vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Erika Andreeva vs. Danielle Collins
• Mccartney Kessler vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Lin Zhu
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Bernarda Pera vs. Daria Saville: wednesday
• Camila Giorgi vs. Katie Boulter: wednesday
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Katie Volynets: wednesday
• Mai Hontama vs. Shuai Zhang: wednesday
• Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Yafan Wang: 6-4, 6-0
• Marie Bouzkova beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 6-1, 6-1
• Angelique Kerber beat Petra Martic: 6-3, 6-4