American teenager Melanie Oudin was among the winners at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami yesterday, as she held on in the first set and rolled through the second set to beat Germany’s Julia Goerges, 75 63. Oudin let a 5-2 lead slip away early in the match but wound up closing the first set out anyway, 7-5, then held off the German to put it away in straight sets on Grandstand court, 75 63.

“Julia was missing a lot of balls at the beginning and I was just getting balls back; she started playing better and I got a little tight,” Oudin said of the first set. “It was up and down a lot. She’d make errors then hit winners. I was pretty steady most of the match - I think we both could have played better.”

Oudin will next take on No.29 seed Daniela Hantuchova, against whom she is 0-2 lifetime (although she won the first set in both of those meetings).

Goerges, ranked No.35, was one spot out of the seeds (Klara Zakopalova, the No.32 seed, was ranked No.34 in the world when the seeds were made).

Belgian Yanina Wickmayer defeated American teenager Melanie Oudin 6-4, 6-3 in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Melanie’s next event will be the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, FL.

19-year-old American, Melanie Oudin defeated her Russian Elena Vesnina in the opening round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

Oudin took one hour and forty six minutes to outplay her opponent in straight sets, registering a 7-6, 6-2 victory and booking a spot in the second round of the tournament.

Oudin’s second round encounter will be against the Belgian Yanina Wickmayer.

Leading the second round roster in Monterrey, MEX was No.2 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who had survived a near-three hour first round match against Eleni Daniilidou the night before. Taking on Melanie Oudin, Pavlyuchenkova stormed out to a 62 52 lead only to watch the American push the second set to a tie-break, even holding double set point at 6-4; but the Russian fought those off and won the last four points of the match to clinch a 62 76(6) win on Cancha Central.

“Melanie is a much more aggressive player than my opponent yesterday so I had to pay much more attention,” Pavlyuchenkova said. “I played much better.”

Teenager Melanie Oudin defeated compatriot Vania King 6-4, 6-1in the 1st round of the Whirlpool Monterrey Open in Monterrey, MEX.

Oudin faces defending champion, Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova next.