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Belinda Bencic squandered 5 match factors in a second-set tiebreaker however regrouped to beat Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in three units on Monday within the first spherical of the Guadalajara (Mexico) Open Akron.

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Bencic, a Swiss participant seeded tenth, prevailed 7-5, 6-7 (10), 6-3 in opposition to Fernandez, who reached the 2021 U.S. Open last.

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Fernandez shook off Bencic’s 5 probabilities to shut the match, claiming the middle-set tiebreaker on her second set level. The gamers exchanged service breaks early within the third set earlier than Bencic broke once more for a 4-2 lead and in the end held on for the win.

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Bencic completed with sizeable edges in each aces (7-2) and double faults (13-8).

Columbia’s Camila Osorio upset Fifteenth-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 6-4, 7-6 (8), however Sixteenth-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic received her opener 6-3, 7-5 over the US’ Bernarda Pera.

Different first-round winners included Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka, Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova, China’s Lin Zhu, Canada’s Rebecca Marino and Bianca Andreescu, Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk, Belgium’s Elise Mertens and the US’ Sloane Stephens.

Within the last match of the night time, Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic cruised previous Mexican wild-card entrant Fernanda Contreras Gomez 6-2, 6-1.