Pera wins arm-wrestle against Saville in Indian Wells

American qualifier Bernarda Pera moved into the second round of the Indian Wells by edging out Australian Daria Saville 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5) at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday night.

Pera, ranked No 78, will play No 7 seed Marketa Vondrousova next.

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):

• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Sloane Stephens vs. Mayar Sherif
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Peyton Stearns
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Diana Shnaider vs. Ana Bogdan
• Xinyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Naomi Osaka vs. Sara Errani
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Oceane Dodin
• Liv Hovde vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Diane Parry vs. Martina Trevisan
• Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan
• Emma Raducanu vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Greet Minnen
• Xiyu Wang vs. Clara Burel
• Magdalena Frech vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Nao Hibino vs. Venus Williams
• Taylor Townsend vs. Magda Linette
• Robin Montgomery vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Mccartney Kessler vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Lin Zhu: wednesday
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Yulia Putintseva: wednesday
• Erika Andreeva vs. Danielle Collins: wednesday
• Camila Giorgi beat Katie Boulter: 6-3, 6-2
• Katie Volynets (WC) beat Mirra Andreeva: 7-5, 7-5
• Mai Hontama (Q) beat Shuai Zhang: 5-7, 6-2, 6-0
• Rebecca Sramkova (Q) beat Yafan Wang: 6-4, 6-0
• Tatjana Maria beat Arantxa Rus: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 6-1, 6-1
• Angelique Kerber beat Petra Martic: 6-3, 6-4