Wozniacki battles past Volynets to reach fourth round in Indian Wells
Caroline Wozniacki won against Katie Volynets 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 on Sunday night. She’ll play German Angelique Kerber in the next round
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Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki advanced to the last 16 of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells by defeating American wildcard Katie Volynets 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Sunday night.
Wozniacki, ranked No 204, will face another former world No 1, German Angelique Kerber, next.
The 33-year-old Dane won against Chinese Lin Zhu (7-6 (6), 6-1) and Croat Donna Vekic, the No 25 seed (7-6 (5), 6-3) earlier in the tournament.
In the previous rounds of the Indian Wells tournament, Volynets, ranked No 131, won against Russian Mirra Andreeva (7-5, 7-5) and Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the No 6 seed (6-4, 6-4).
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):
- Elina Svitolina vs. Emma Navarro
- Caroline Garcia vs. Maria Sakkari
- Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens
- Anna Blinkova vs. Diane Parry
- Emma Raducanu vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Sloane Stephens vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Coco Gauff
- Yue Yuan vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Angelique Kerber beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-4, 7-5
- Anastasia Potapova (28) beat Nadia Podoroska (LL): 6-1, 6-1
- Jasmine Paolini (13) beat Anna Kalinskaya (21): 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Yulia Putintseva beat Madison Keys (18): 6-4, 6-1
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Linda Noskova (26): 6-4, 6-0
