Madrid Open: Cirstea beats wildcard Eala to move into third round
The Romanian will meet the winner of the match between Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, and Chinese Xiyu Wang in the next round
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Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 27 seed, reached the third round of the Madrid Open by edging out Filipino wildcard Alexandra Eala 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4 at the Caja Magica on Thursday afternoon.
Cirstea, ranked No 30, will face the winner of the match between Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, and Chinese Xiyu Wang next.
Eala, who trains at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Spain and is ranked No 170, edged out Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko (2-6, 6-4, 6-4) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.
Madrid WTA 1000, other second-round matches (Caja Magica, clay, USD 8,770,480):
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (11) beat Sara Errani (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Naomi Osaka: 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
- Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Emma Navarro (19) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-2, 6-1
- Dayana Yastremska (31) beat Emiliana Arango (Q): 0-6, 7-5, 6-4
- Maria Sakkari (5) beat Donna Vekic: 6-3, 6-2
- Victoria Azarenka (23) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-1
- Madison Keys (18) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6)
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Elina Svitolina (16): 6-3, 7-5
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-0, 6-0
- Danielle Collins vs. Olga Danilovic
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Shelby Rogers
- Katie Boulter vs. Robin Montgomery
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Mayar Sherif
- Sara Bejlek vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Magda Linette vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Caroline Garcia vs. Xinyu Wang
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Linda Noskova
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Elena Rybakina
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Daria Saville
- Iga Swiatek vs. Xiyu Wang
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Elise Mertens vs. Sloane Stephens
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Ons Jabeur
- Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Veronika Kudermetova
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