Miami Open: Pegula beats Fernandez to move into last 16
Jessica Pegula beat Leylah Fernandez 7-5, 6-4 on Sunday. She’ll play American Emma Navarro, the No 20 seed, in the next round
Jessica Pegula, Miami Open, 2024 Zuma / Panoramic
American Jessica Pegula, the No 5 seed, advanced to the last 16 of the Miami Open by beating Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 31 seed, 7-5, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium.
Pegula, ranked No 5, will play American Emma Navarro, the No 20 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the American benefited from the abandonment of Chinese Lin Zhu (6-4, 4-1).
Fernandez, ranked No 35, won against Colombian qualifier Emiliana Arango (6-4, 6-2) in the previous 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
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (14) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (21): 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Oceane Dodin (LL): 6-4, 6-0
- Emma Navarro beat Jasmine Paolini (12): 6-2, 3-6, 6-0
- Sorana Cirstea (19) beat Daria Kasatkina (10): 7-5, 6-2
- 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
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