Miami Open: Cirstea topples Garcia for second time in two weeks

Romanian Sorana Cirstea won against Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 5 seed, 6-2, 6-3 to move into the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday evening.

Cirstea, ranked No 74, will face Czech qualifier Karolina Muchova next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, the Romanian defeated Mexican wildcard Fernanda Contreras Gomez (7-6 (6), 6-2).

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

• Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic
• Magdalena Frech vs. Erika Andreeva
• Madison Brengle vs. Donna Vekic: friday
• Petra Kvitova vs. Linda Noskova: friday
• Sofia Kenin beat Anhelina Kalinina (28): 6-3, 6-4
• Madison Keys (19) beat Robin Montgomery (WC): 6-4, 6-4
• Barbora Krejcikova (16) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-3, 6-2
• Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ons Jabeur (4): 6-2, 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova (31) beat Anna Blinkova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Veronika Kudermetova (11): 6-4, 6-2
• Bianca Andreescu beat Maria Sakkari (7): 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
• Karolina Pliskova (17) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 6-4
• Karolina Muchova beat Lin Zhu (32): 6-4, 6-2
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (18) beat Taylor Townsend: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• 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