WTA Indian Wells: Montgomery sets up Kostyuk clash in second round
Robin Montgomery won against Jule Niemeier 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 on Wednesday and will face No 18 seed Marta Kostyuk in the next round

American wildcard Robin Montgomery advanced to the second round of the BNP Paribas Open by beating German qualifier Jule Niemeier 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday.
Montgomery, ranked No 107 in the world and a former US Open champion, will face No 18 seed Marta Kostyuk next.
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):
- 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
- Anna Blinkova vs. McCartney Kessler
- Lauren Davis vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Iva Jovic vs. Julia Grabher
- Belinda Bencic vs. Tatjana Maria
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Sonay Kartal vs. Varvara Lepchenko
- Emma Raducanu vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Maya Joint
- Olga Danilovic vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Catherine McNally
- Maddison Inglis vs. Sofia Kenin
- Claire Liu vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Yue Yuan
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Katie Volynets