Monterrey Open: Avanesyan advances to second round

Armenian Elina Avanesyan beat Italian wildcard Elisabetta Cocciaretto 7-6 (6), 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Monterrey Open at Sonoma Club on Tuesday night.

Avanesyan, ranked No 51, will play No 5 seed Elina Svitolina next.

Monterrey WTA 500, other first-round results (Sonoma Club, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):

• Magdalena Frech vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Xiyu Wang vs. Tatjana Maria
• Aleksandra Krunic vs. Yue Yuan
• Victoria Rodriguez vs. Renata Zarazua
• Linda Noskova vs. Anna Danilina
• Carol Zhao vs. Petra Martic
• Camila Osorio beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Lulu Sun beat Chloe Paquet: 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Lina Glushko (LL) beat Kateryna Volodko (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
• Maria Lourdes Carle beat Veronika Kudermetova (8): 1-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Erika Andreeva beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-1, 6-4