Mérida Open: Gracheva moves into second round
Varvara Gracheva beat Tatjana Maria 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday night and will play American Sloane Stephens, the second seed, in the next round
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Russian lucky loser Varvara Gracheva advanced to the second round of the Mérida Open by beating German Tatjana Maria 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 at the Yucatan Country Club on Wednesday night.
Gracheva, ranked No 89, will face American Sloane Stephens, the second seed, next.
Mérida WTA 250, other first-round results (Yucatan Country Club, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):
- Fernanda Contreras Gomez vs. Alycia Parks
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Rebecca Peterson
- Magda Linette vs. Camila Osorio: wednesday
- Sloane Stephens beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-1, 6-3
- Panna Udvardy beat Jule Niemeier: 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5)
- Katerina Siniakova (4) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 7-5 ret.
- Xinyu Wang beat Elina Avanesyan (Q): 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto (7) beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-0, 6-3
- Kimberly Birrell (Q) beat Anna Bondar: 7-6 (8), 6-1
- Camila Giorgi beat Mayar Sherif (6): 6-4, 6-2
- Katie Volynets (WC) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
- Xiyu Wang beat Alison Riske-Amritraj (8): 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (1)
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Ana Konjuh (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2
- Catherine McNally beat Lin Zhu (3): 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 6-1
- Ysaline Bonaventure beat Simona Waltert (WC): 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
