Miami Open: Townsend moves past Bronzetti and into second round

American qualifier Taylor Townsend edged out Italian Lucia Bronzetti 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium.

Townsend, ranked No 72, will face No 25 seed Elise Mertens next.

Miami WTA 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Naomi Osaka
• Storm Hunter vs. Martina Trevisan
• Katie Volynets vs. Sofia Kenin
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Donna Vekic vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Bernarda Pera vs. Danielle Collins
• Shelby Rogers vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Sloane Stephens vs. Angelique Kerber
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Erika Andreeva
• Magdalena Frech vs. Camila Giorgi
• Claire Liu vs. Petra Martic
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Arantxa Rus
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Lin Zhu
• Tatjana Maria vs. Emiliana Arango
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Maria Timofeeva
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Diane Parry
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Magda Linette
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Simona Halep vs. Paula Badosa: tuesday
• Xiyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: tuesday
• Brenda Fruhvirtova (WC) beat Maria Lourdes Carle (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Clara Burel: 6-1, 6-4
• Katerina Siniakova beat Ana Bogdan: 6-2, 6-4
• Laura Siegemund (Q) beat Aleksandra Krunic (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Diana Shnaider beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-3, 6-3
• Clara Tauson (Q) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
• Peyton Stearns beat Yafan Wang: 6-2, 6-3
• Xinyu Wang beat Hailey Baptiste (WC): 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Daria Saville beat Shuai Zhang: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
• Yue Yuan beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 6-2