WTA Indian Wells: Lucky loser Kartal into second round

British lucky loser Sonay Kartal moved into the second round of the BNP Paribas Open by winning against American qualifier Varvara Lepchenko 7-6 (6), 6-2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday.

Kartal, ranked No 83, will face No 16 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia next.

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):

• Belinda Bencic (WC) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-1, 6-1
• Sorana Cirstea beat Maya Joint (Q): 6-2, 7-5
• Moyuka Uchijima beat Emma Raducanu: 6-3, 6-2
• Catherine McNally beat Ajla Tomljanovic (Q): 6-4 ret.
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Olga Danilovic: 6-2, 6-3
• Sofia Kenin beat Maddison Inglis (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Polina Kudermetova beat Claire Liu (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 7-5
• Dayana Yastremska beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-4
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Katie Volynets: 0-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Robin Montgomery (WC) beat Jule Niemeier (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Camila Osorio beat Naomi Osaka: 6-4, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka beat Clervie Ngounoue (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• Katerina Siniakova beat Maria Lourdes Carle (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Caroline Dolehide (WC) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Xinyu Wang beat Mayar Sherif: 6-4, 7-5
• Magda Linette beat Peyton Stearns: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Suzan Lamens beat Marie Bouzkova: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Hailey Baptiste (Q) beat Whitney Osuigwe (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Ann Li: 7-5, 3-6, 6-1
• Caroline Garcia beat Bernarda Pera (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Renata Zarazua: 6-4, 1-0 ret.
• Lulu Sun beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (2)
• Varvara Gracheva beat Petra Kvitova (WC): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Alycia Parks vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Lauren Davis vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Anna Blinkova vs. McCartney Kessler
• Iva Jovic vs. Julia Grabher
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Jaqueline Cristian

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