MATCH POINTS

Defending champion Mihaela Buzarnescu faces former Top 10 player Daria Kasatkina for their first-ever meeting, in a Monday nightcap. Buzarnescu claimed her first WTA singles title in San Jose last year, which allowed her to make a Top 20 debut not long after the event.

Maria Sakkari, who lost to Buzarnescu in last year’s final, takes a 2-0 head-to-head lead into her match against Ekaterina Alexandrova. Both of Sakkari’s victories came at clay-court Challenger events, in 2015 and 2016.

CoCo Vandeweghe will face Marie Bouzkova for the first time, in Vandeweghe’s first match since a first-round loss to Polona Hercog at Beijing in October of last year. Vandeweghe was runner-up at this event in 2017, falling to compatriot Madison Keys in the final.

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Carla Suarez Navarro will take on Magda Linette in their first encounter. Former World No.6 Suarez Navarro is looking for her first career match-win at this event, losing in her opening matches in both 2014 and 2015.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Peng Shuai, two former WTA Doubles World No.1 players, will team up for a first-round doubles match on Monday. Mattek-Sands is also a wild card into the singles event where she is the second-oldest competitor; she will face the oldest competitor, fellow American Venus Williams, in the first round later in the week.