Miami Open: Qualifier Muchova reaches third round

Czech qualifier Karolina Muchova reached the third round of the Miami Open by winning against Chinese Lin Zhu, the No 32 seed, 6-4, 6-2 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday.

Muchova, ranked No 55, will face the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 5 seed, and Romanian Sorana Cirstea next.

The Czech defeated Swiss Jil Teichmann (6-0, 6-2) in the previous round of the Miami tournament.

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
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Ons Jabeur
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Anna Blinkova
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Maria Sakkari vs. Bianca Andreescu: friday
• Karolina Pliskova (17) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 6-4
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Taylor Townsend: friday
• Elena Rybakina (10) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
• Victoria Azarenka (14) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-3, 6-1
• Martina Trevisan (25) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Magda Linette (20) beat Evgeniya Rodina: 6-3, 6-4
• 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