Madrid Open: Joint advances to second round

Australian qualifier Maya Joint reached the second round of the Madrid Open by edging out Spanish wildcard Carlota Martinez Cirez 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 at the Caja Mágica on Wednesday.

Joint, ranked No 78, will face No 11 seed Emma Navarro next.

Madrid WTA 1000, other first-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 7.854.000, most recent results first):

• McCartney Kessler vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Sonay Kartal
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Olga Danilovic
• Eva Lys vs. Teodora Kostovic
• Francesca Jones vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Robin Montgomery
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Suzan Lamens vs. Emma Raducanu
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Anna Blinkova vs. Panna Udvardy
• Xinyu Wang vs. Maria Sakkari: wednesday
• Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Rebecca Sramkova: wednesday
• Belinda Bencic vs. Zeynep Sonmez: wednesday
• Alycia Parks vs. Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva: wednesday
• Bernarda Pera vs. Jana Fett: wednesday
• Anastasija Sevastova beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-4, 7-5
• Katie Volynets beat Petra Kvitova: 6-4, 6-0
• Diane Parry (Q) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-3, 6-4
• Ann Li beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Peyton Stearns beat Kimberly Birrell: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
• Camila Osorio beat Emiliana Arango (WC): 6-3, 6-3
• Lulu Sun beat Varvara Gracheva: 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Katie Boulter beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
• Hailey Baptiste (WC) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (4)
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 6-1
• Marie Bouzkova beat Renata Zarazua: 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Naomi Osaka: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
• Alexandra Eala (WC) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-2
• Caroline Dolehide beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-4, 6-4