Miami Open: Stearns makes second round
Peyton Stearns defeated Katie Boulter 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday evening and will play No 27 seed Elise Mertens in the next round
Peyton Stearns
American Peyton Stearns moved into the second round of the Miami Open by winning against Katie Boulter 6-4, 6-2 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Stearns, ranked No 43, will play No 27 seed Elise Mertens next.
Miami WTA 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Mayar Sherif vs. Lulu Sun
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Belinda Bencic
- Suzan Lamens vs. Moyuka Uchijima: wednesday
- Tyra Caterina Grant vs. Julia Grabher: wednesday
- Alexandra Eala (WC) beat Katie Volynets: 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Caroline Garcia beat Anna Bondar (Q): 6-0, 7-6 (5)
- Elina Avanesyan beat Erika Andreeva (WC): 6-1, 6-7 (4), 6-4
- Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- McCartney Kessler beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
- Emma Raducanu beat Sayaka Ishii (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Victoria Mboko (WC) beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 5-7, 6-3
- Kimberly Birrell (Q) beat Anastasia Potapova: 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Anna Blinkova beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Ann Li: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Ashlyn Krueger beat Renata Zarazua: 6-3, 6-2
- Hailey Baptiste (WC) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1
- Rebeka Masarova (Q) beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5
- Sofia Kenin beat Petra Kvitova (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Polina Kudermetova: 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2
- Lauren Davis beat Aoi Ito (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Linda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Claire Liu (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Rebecca Sramkova beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
- Naomi Osaka beat Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Sorana Cirstea beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-4, 6-3
- Katerina Siniakova beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
- Magda Linette beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Alycia Parks beat Varvara Gracheva: 3-6, 7-6, 6-3
- Viktoriya Tomova beat Catherine McNally: 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
