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Also falling on the first day of the main draw
was sixth seed Linda Fruhvirtova of the Czech Republic.
Denmark's Clara Tauson eliminated Fruhvirtova 6-2, 7-6 (6).
No. 1 seed Magda Linette of Poland avoided a similar fate,
rallying past Jodie Burrage of Great Britain 6-7 (3), 6-0, 6-2.
No. 5 seed Rebeka Masarova of Spain, No. 7 seed Greet Minnen of
Belgium and Harriet Dart of Great Britain also won their opening
matches.
Guadalajara Open Akron
Hailey Baptiste, a 21-year-old Washington, D.C., native, saved a
match point while rallying for a 7-6 (5), 5-7, 7-6 (4) win over
16th-seeded Karolina Pliskova in second-round action at
Guadalajara, Mexico.
Baptiste, who is ranked 174th in the world, is through to the
third round of a WTA event higher than the 125 level for the
first time in her career.
Pliskova, from the Czech Republic, led 5-2 in the third set and
had a match point at 5-4, 40-30 but couldn't convert.
In other second-round matches, Martina Trevisan upset
15th-seeded Jasmine Paolini 7-5, 6-2 in an all-Italian matchup,
and seventh-seeded Veronika Kudermetova of Russia downed
Canada's Eugenie Bouchard 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-4.
First-round winners included 10th-seeded Victoria Azarenka of
Belarus and the United States' Caroline Dolehide, Emma Navarro,
Sofia Kenin and Sachia Vickery. Colombia's Emiliana Arango
knocked out 11th-seeded Russian Anastasia Potapova 6-4, 6-3, and
Italy's Camila Giorgi defeated Egypt's Mayar Sherif, the No. 14
seed, 7-5, 6-3.
--Field Level Media
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