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Former Stanford All-America Mallory Burdette and one-time Menlo School star Dmitry Tursunov advanced to the main draw in their respective tournaments at the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday in Indian Wells.

Burdette made it through two qualifying matches in the WTA Tour event to reach the main draw. She opened with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Jana Cepelova of Slovakia and followed that with a 6-2, 6-1 triumph over tour veteran Melinda Czink of Hungary.

Burdette's first-round match in the main draw will be against veteran Jill Craybas.

Tursunov, who helped Menlo win the 1998 Central Coast Section Division II team title and added the section individual crown in his one season at school, defeated Mohammad Abid of Tunisia, 6-1, 6-4, in qualifying on Tuesday.

Tursunov will face Thiago Alves of Brazil in his main-draw opener in the ATP Tour event.

Each tour event has a draw of 128, with $4,330,6225 available in prize money. The women's tournament features No. 1 Victoria Azarenka and No. 2 Maria Sharapova while the men's tourney has No. 1 Novak Djokovic and No. 2 Roger Federer.

— Palo Alto Online Sports

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