Stephens sees off Cirstea in Indian Wells
Sloane Stephens beat Sorana Cirstea 6-0, 7-5 on Saturday night. She’ll play Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 11 seed, in the next round
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American Sloane Stephens advanced to the third round of the Indian Wells by beating Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 19 seed, 6-0, 7-5 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday night.
Stephens, ranked No 44, will play Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 11 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament, the American won against Egyptian Mayar Sherif (7-5, 6-3).
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Yue Yuan
- Peyton Stearns vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Emma Navarro
- Elina Svitolina vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Naomi Osaka: saturday
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Victoria Azarenka: saturday
- Anna Blinkova beat Jessica Pegula (5): 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
- Caroline Garcia (20) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
- Elise Mertens (24) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-1, 6-4
- Maria Sakkari (9) beat Diana Shnaider: 5-7, 6-4, 6-0
- Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Dayana Yastremska (30): 4-0 ret.
- Diane Parry beat Leylah Fernandez (29): 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Clara Burel: 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Anhelina Kalinina (32): 6-3, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina beat Oceane Dodin: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Madison Keys (18) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
- Nadia Podoroska (LL) beat Kayla Day (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Linda Noskova (26) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-3, 7-5
- Anna Kalinskaya (21) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
- Katie Volynets (WC) beat Ons Jabeur (6): 6-4, 6-4
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Rebecca Sramkova (Q): 7-5, 6-2
- Anastasia Potapova (28) beat Marie Bouzkova: 7-5, 6-1
- Jasmine Paolini (13) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk (31) beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Donna Vekic (25): 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Veronika Kudermetova (17) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-1, 7-5
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Danielle Collins: 6-3, 6-0
- Marketa Vondrousova (7) beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-0, 6-2
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (22) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Angelique Kerber beat Jelena Ostapenko (10): 5-7, 6-3, 6-3
- Yulia Putintseva beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (15): 7-5, 6-1
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