Anna Kalinskaya of Russia, the 151st-ranked tennis player in the world, has defeated the 199th-ranked American Eisha Muhammad 6/1, 6/2 at the start of the BNP Paribas Open qualification.

Anna broke five times in one hour of the match, without once breaking serve. Eisha served twice and made seven double faults. The score of personal meetings between the opponents was 2:0 in favor of the Russian player.

In the second round of the tournament in Indian Wells Kalinskaya will play with Priscilla Hong.