Indian Wells: Townsend makes second round

American qualifier Taylor Townsend beat Pole Magda Linette 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-1 to reach the second round of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday night.

Townsend, ranked No 77, will face No 21 seed Anna Kalinskaya 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
• Liv Hovde vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Oceane Dodin: friday
• Diane Parry vs. Martina Trevisan: friday
• Xinyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: friday
• Naomi Osaka beat Sara Errani (Q): 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