Indian Wells: Gracheva knocks out seed Martic, books spot in third round

Russian qualifier Varvara Gracheva reached the third round of the Indian Wells by defeating Croat Petra Martic, the No 25 seed, 6-3, 6-2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.

Gracheva, ranked No 66, will face the winner of the match between German Tatjana Maria and Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, next.

Ahead of her victory, the 22-year-old Russian won against Belgian qualifier Ysaline Bonaventure (6-2, 6-2).

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Sorana Cirstea vs. Madison Keys
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Paula Badosa
• Ons Jabeur vs. Magdalena Frech
• Peyton Stearns vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Elena Rybakina vs. Sofia Kenin
• Tatjana Maria vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Martina Trevisan vs. Madison Brengle
• Dalma Galfi vs. Caroline Garcia
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Emma Navarro
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Bernarda Pera
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Iga Swiatek vs. Claire Liu
• Karolina Muchova vs. Victoria Azarenka: saturday
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Marie Bouzkova: saturday
• Magda Linette vs. Emma Raducanu: saturday
• Linda Noskova beat Amanda Anisimova (31): 7-6 (6), 6-3
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Camila Giorgi: 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Karolina Pliskova (17) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 2-6, 6-0, 6-4
• Xinyu Wang beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (18): 6-2, 6-3
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Cristina Bucsa (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Maria Sakkari (7) beat Shelby Rogers: 2-6, 6-4, 6-0
• Rebecca Peterson beat Shuai Zhang (22): 3-0 ret.
• Anastasia Potapova (26) beat Xiyu Wang: 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Petra Kvitova (15) beat Elizabeth Mandlik (WC): 6-1, 7-5
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Evgeniya Rodina: 6-2, 6-0
• Barbora Krejcikova (16) beat Dayana Yastremska (WC): 6-1, 6-2
• Veronika Kudermetova (11) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-3, 6-4
• Lesia Tsurenko (Q) beat Donna Vekic (29): 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Jil Teichmann beat Belinda Bencic (9): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Jelena Ostapenko (24) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 7-5, 3-6, 6-2
• Anhelina Kalinina (27) beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 4-6, 6-4, 7-5