Miami Open: Clinical Cirstea upsets Kasatkina to reach last 16

Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 19 seed, won against Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, 7-5, 6-2 to move into the last 16 of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium.

Cirstea, ranked No 24, will play the winner of the match between American Danielle Collins and Russian Elina Avanesyan next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, the 33-year-old Romanian defeated American Sloane Stephens (6-2, 6-1).

Kasatkina, ranked No 11, benefited from the abandonment of American qualifier Claire Liu (6-0, 1-0) in the second round of the Miami tournament.

Miami WTA 1000, other third-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):

• Iga Swiatek vs. Linda Noskova
• Danielle Collins vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Caroline Garcia vs. Naomi Osaka
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Jessica Pegula
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Coco Gauff vs. Oceane Dodin: sunday
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Emma Navarro: sunday
• Katie Boulter (24) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (11): 6-2, 6-3
• Anna Kalinskaya (22) beat Jelena Ostapenko (9): 6-3, 6-1
• Anhelina Kalinina (32) beat Aryna Sabalenka (2): 6-4, 1-6, 6-1
• Yulia Putintseva beat Greet Minnen (LL): 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
• Elena Rybakina (4) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-4
• Madison Keys (17) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Maria Sakkari (8) beat Dayana Yastremska (28): 7-5, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka (27) beat Qinwen Zheng (7): 6-4, 7-5