Miami Open: Vekic books spot in third round

Croat Donna Vekic, the No 22 seed, won against American Madison Brengle 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to reach the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday night.

Vekic, ranked No 20, will face No 15 seed Petra Kvitova next.

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In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Brengle, ranked No 86, benefited from the abandonment of Amanda Anisimova (7-6 (5), 5-2).

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

• Magdalena Frech vs. Erika Andreeva
• Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka: friday
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic: friday
• Petra Kvitova beat Linda Noskova: 6-3, 6-0
• Sorana Cirstea beat Caroline Garcia (5): 6-2, 6-3
• 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 (Q) 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

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