Indian Wells: Putintseva sees off Keys to reach last 16
Yulia Putintseva beat Madison Keys 6-4, 6-1 on Sunday evening. She’ll play Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, in the next round
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Kazakh Yulia Putintseva advanced to the last 16 of the Indian Wells by beating American Madison Keys, the No 18 seed, 6-4, 6-1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Sunday evening.
Putintseva, ranked No 79, will face Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, next.
The Kazakh won against German Tamara Korpatsch (6-2, 6-3) and Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 15 seed (7-5, 6-1) in the previous rounds of the Indian Wells tournament.
In the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament, Keys, ranked No 20, edged out qualifier Hailey Baptiste (6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)).
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Katie Volynets
- Emma Raducanu vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Elina Svitolina vs. Emma Navarro
- Caroline Garcia vs. Maria Sakkari
- Anna Blinkova vs. Diane Parry
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Coco Gauff
- Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens
- Sloane Stephens vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Yue Yuan vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Angelique Kerber vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Jasmine Paolini: sunday
- Iga Swiatek beat Linda Noskova (26): 6-4, 6-0
