Sakkari snaps losing streak with second-round win in Indian Wells
Maria Sakkari beat Viktoriya Tomova 6-0, 6-3 on Saturday evening and will face the winner of the match between American Coco Gauff, the No 3 seed, and Japanese Moyuka Uchijima in the next round
Maria Sakkari at Indian Wells 2024
Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 29 seed, picked up her first win in four matches as she beat Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova 6-0, 6-3 to reach the third round of the Indian Wells WTA 1000 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.
Sakkari, the runner-up last year and 29th seed this year, will play the winner of the match between American Coco Gauff, the No 3 seed, and Japanese Moyuka Uchijima next.
Tomova, ranked No 63, defeated Serb Olga Danilovic (6-2, 6-3) in the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament.
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):
- Emma Navarro vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. McCartney Kessler
- Alycia Parks vs. Diana Shnaider
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Catherine McNally vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Belinda Bencic
- Elise Mertens vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Sofia Kenin
- Coco Gauff vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Sonay Kartal vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Donna Vekic
- Iva Jovic vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Madison Keys (5) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-3, 6-0
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Polina Kudermetova: saturday
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Magdalena Frech: saturday
- Qinwen Zheng (8) beat Victoria Azarenka: 6-3, 6-4
- Danielle Collins (14) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-4
- Mirra Andreeva (9) beat Varvara Gracheva: 7-5, 6-4
- Elina Svitolina (23) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-1, 6-7 (8), 6-3
- Jessica Pegula (4) beat Magda Linette: 6-4, 6-2
- Xinyu Wang beat Jelena Ostapenko (26): 6-4, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Caroline Garcia: 6-2, 6-0
- Caroline Dolehide (WC) beat Eva Lys (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Lulu Sun beat Linda Noskova (31): 6-1, 6-4
- Dayana Yastremska beat Ons Jabeur (32): 6-3, 6-1
- Clara Tauson (22) beat Camila Osorio: 7-6 (3), 7-5
- Katerina Siniakova beat Yulia Putintseva (21): 6-2, 6-2
- Karolina Muchova (15) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk (18) beat Robin Montgomery (WC): 6-1, 6-3
- Katie Boulter (25) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-0
- Elena Rybakina (7) beat Suzan Lamens: 6-3, 6-3
