Indian Wells: Wang dispatches Schmiedlova

Chinese Xinyu Wang won against Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-0, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday night.

Wang, ranked No 42, will face No 24 seed Elise Mertens 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
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan
• Liv Hovde vs. Lesia Tsurenko: friday
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Oceane Dodin: friday
• Diane Parry vs. Martina Trevisan: friday
• 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