By Jeremy Harness

The Bank of the West Classic has some local flavor to it, and now we know who the local product will be going up against.

Nicole Gibbs, who played her collegiate tennis at Stanford, where this tournament is being held, found out who she will be playing tomorrow night. The 22-year-old will face the sixth-seeded player in the tournament, Elina Svitolina, who dropped the first set to fellow Ukranian Kateryna Bondarenko but roared back to take the next two sets to move on to the second round.

The match was pretty much split down the middle, but the main difference was that Svitolina went the entire match without a single double fault while Bondarenko committed six of them. Meanwhile, Svitolina won 52 percent of her second serves while Bondarenko won only 36 percent of them.

In one of the earlier matches of the day, Vitalia Diatchenko won the first set, 6-3, over Ajla Tomljanovic, but she did not get a single game after that, as Tomljanovic cleaned her out in every way imaginable the rest of the way.

For starters, just as Madison Keys did in blasting Aleksandra Krunic Monday night, the Croatian won 19 of her 22 first serves to set the tone and keep the pressure on Diatchenko. She also broke all three of Diatchenko’s three serves in the third and deciding set.

The dominating finish that Tomljanovic showed should serve as good preparation for her second-round match, as her opponent is none other than Keys, who barely broke a sweat in cruising against Krunic.

However, the Americans did take a hit during the doubles portion of this event. The duo of Catherine Bellis and Jacqueline Cako gave it a good run against the second-ranked pair of Spaniards Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja, but they fell in straight sets, 6-4 and 7-6, despite the fact the they saved 11of their 14 break points.