Qualifier Hontama through to second round at Indian Wells
Mai Hontama defeated Shuai Zhang 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 on Wednesday evening. She’ll face No 31 seed Marta Kostyuk in the next round
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Japanese qualifier Mai Hontama reached the second round of the Indian Wells by winning against Chinese Shuai Zhang 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday evening.
Hontama, ranked No 120, will face No 31 seed Marta Kostyuk next.
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Nao Hibino vs. Venus Williams
- Taylor Townsend vs. Magda Linette
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Peyton Stearns
- Emma Raducanu vs. Rebeka Masarova
- Liv Hovde vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Greet Minnen
- Diana Shnaider vs. Ana Bogdan
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Sofia Kenin
- Diane Parry vs. Martina Trevisan
- Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Xiyu Wang vs. Clara Burel
- Magdalena Frech vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Xinyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Naomi Osaka vs. Sara Errani
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Oceane Dodin
- Sloane Stephens vs. Mayar Sherif
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan
- Robin Montgomery vs. Hailey Baptiste
- Mccartney Kessler vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Lin Zhu
- Tamara Korpatsch vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Erika Andreeva vs. Danielle Collins: wednesday
- Bernarda Pera vs. Daria Saville: wednesday
- Camila Giorgi beat Katie Boulter: 6-3, 6-2
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Katie Volynets: wednesday
- 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
