Wozniacki makes winning start at BNP Paribas Open

Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki advanced to the second round of the Indian Wells by beating Chinese Lin Zhu 7-6 (6), 6-1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday.

The victory was Wozniacki’s first at Indian Wells in 1825 days.

Wozniacki, ranked No 204, will play No 25 seed Donna Vekic 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
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Peyton Stearns
• Sloane Stephens vs. Mayar Sherif
• Diana Shnaider vs. Ana Bogdan
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Liv Hovde vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Xinyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Oceane Dodin
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Yue Yuan
• Diane Parry vs. Martina Trevisan
• Anna Blinkova vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Naomi Osaka vs. Sara Errani
• Taylor Townsend vs. Magda Linette
• Robin Montgomery vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Nao Hibino vs. Venus Williams
• Mccartney Kessler vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz: thursday
• Danielle Collins beat Erika Andreeva (Q): 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6)
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Ashlyn Krueger: thursday
• Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Rebeka Masarova (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Greet Minnen: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
• Xiyu Wang vs. Clara Burel: thursday
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Magdalena Frech: 6-2, 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-3
• Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Daria Saville: 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5)
• 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