Canadians Rebecca Marino and Eugenie Bouchard advanced to the second round of the Chennai Open tennis tournament with wins on Monday in India.
Vancouver's Marino, seeded seventh at the WTA 250 event, posted a 7-5, 6-2 win over Russia's Anna Blinkova. Marino won 70.5 per cent of first-serve points and broke Blinkova six times on nine chances.
Blinkova had seven break chances against Marino, but only managed to convert three. Marino is coming off a run to the third round at the U.S.
Open that moved her WTA ranking to No. 90, her highest since she was ranked 83rd on Feb. 13, 2012. She will face Poland's Katarzyna Kawa in the second round.
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