Indian Wells: Pera reaches third round defeating Samsonova

American Bernarda Pera edged out Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 12 seed, 2-6, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (6) to advance to the third round of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday, saving two match points in the second set.

Pera, ranked No 43, will play the winner of the match between Romanian Sorana Cirstea and American Madison Keys, the No 19 seed, next.

The American won against Italian Lucia Bronzetti (7-5, 4-6, 6-3) in the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament.

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
• Martina Trevisan vs. Madison Brengle
• Tatjana Maria vs. Daria Kasatkina: saturday
• Dalma Galfi vs. Caroline Garcia: saturday
• Leylah Fernandez (30) beat Emma Navarro (WC): 6-2, 6-4
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Claire Liu: 6-0, 6-1
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Katerina Siniakova: 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Petra Martic (25): 6-3, 6-2
• Karolina Muchova beat Victoria Azarenka (14): 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Marie Bouzkova (28): 6-1, 6-1
• Emma Raducanu beat Magda Linette (20): 7-6 (3), 6-2
• 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