San Diego Open: Saville untroubled en route to second round

Australian qualifier Daria Saville defeated China’s Lin Zhu 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the San Diego Open at the Barnes Tennis Center on Tuesday night.

Saville, ranked No 148, will face the winner of the match between Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 8 seed, and German Tatjana Maria next.

San Diego WTA 500, other first-round results (Barnes Tennis Center, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):

• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anna Blinkova
• Donna Vekic vs. Katherine Hui
• Taylah Preston vs. Magdalena Frech
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Tatjana Maria
• Mai Hontama vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Ann Li vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Clara Tauson vs. Xinyu Wang
• Marina Melnikova vs. Marina Stakusic: tuesday
• Jule Niemeier (Q) beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-3, 6-0
• Katie Boulter beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-3, 6-1