Bouchard dogged in hometown win

hold serve to the tiebreaker. Bouchard had three match points when the Czech fell behind 0-40, but Safarova earned full marks for getting out of trouble with a couple of aces and a service winner.

Safarova took a 3-1 lead in the tiebreaker, but Bouchard reeled off six consecutive points to take the match. She went all in to hit two passing shots and the match came to an anticlimactic finish when Safarova double-faulted.

“The crowd was incredible,” Bouchard said before ducking away to prepare for a doubles match later in the day.

The crowd wasn’t enough earlier in the day when Italian Sara Errani edged Aleksandra Wozniak of Blainville, Que., 6-4, 7-6.

Wozniak, who reached a career-high No. 21 in 2009, said she’s starting to feel good after five years of dealing with injuries, including a shoulder injury which required surgery in 2014 and kept her sidelined for most of 2015. She hasn’t won a main-draw match on the WTA Tour since March 2014, but was encouraged by her play Tuesday.

“It was a close match today, playing the No. 25 in the world,” said Wozniak. “I thought I played well. I had some opportunities to turn it around, but I’m happy with the performance going forward after this long period of time, which I didn’t play such a high level of tennis.”

Wozniak said she had to make better decisions on the court.

“Sometimes I felt rushed,” she said. “A girl at such a high level is going to make you rush on points. She mixes it up so well. I tried to be aggressive and focus. I need to get better with my consistency so that’s something to work on.”

Wozniak’s ranking has dropped to No. 465 but she has a protected ranking with allows her entry to eight tournament. She has used six of those freebies and realizes she has to start earning points.

“I’m pretty well starting at zero, but this match will give me confidence,” said Wozniak, who will play Challenger tournaments in Quebec in the next two weeks. Tenth-seeded Madison Keys of the U.S. cruised past Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-0 to set up the battle of Madisons. She’ ll play fellow American Madison Brengle in the second round.

Fourteenth-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic defeated Ukraine qualifier Kateryna Bondarenko 3-6, 6-2, 7-5; 15th-seeded Johanna Konta of Britain beat American Shelby Rogers 6-4, 6-3, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the 16 th seed from Russia, outlasted Yulia Putinseva of Kazakhstan 6-4, 1-6, 7-5.