Miami Open: Linette books spot in third round

Pole Magda Linette, the No 20 seed, beat Russian Evgeniya Rodina 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday night.

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Linette, ranked No 19, will face the winner of the match between Italian Camila Giorgi and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 14 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Rodina, ranked No 369, won against American Bernarda Pera (6-3, 6-4).

Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Shuai Zhang vs. Erika Andreeva
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic
• Caroline Garcia vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Madison Brengle vs. Donna Vekic
• Petra Kvitova vs. Linda Noskova
• Robin Montgomery vs. Madison Keys
• Sofia Kenin vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Anna Blinkova
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Ons Jabeur
• Maria Sakkari vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Karolina Muchova vs. Lin Zhu
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Taylor Townsend
• Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Camila Giorgi vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Nao Hibino vs. Martina Trevisan: thursday
• Claire Liu beat Julia Grabher (LL): 6-4, 6-3
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Rebecca Marino: 6-4, 6-3
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Tereza Martincova (Q): 7-6 (4), 0-6, 6-0
• Jelena Ostapenko (24) beat Mirjam Bjorklund (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Anastasia Potapova (27) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-1, 6-3
• Liudmila Samsonova (12) beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Katherine Sebov (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Danielle Collins (30) beat Viktoriya Tomova (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Petra Martic (29) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng (23) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
• Elise Mertens beat Daria Kasatkina (8): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Paula Badosa (21) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2