Indian Wells WTA 1000: Vekic reaches third round

Croat Donna Vekic, the No 19 seed, advanced to the third round of the Indian Wells WTA 1000 by defeating Armenian Elina Avanesyan 6-3, 6-3 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday evening.

Vekic, ranked No 22, will play the winner of the match between American Emma Navarro, the No 10 seed, and Romanian Sorana Cirstea next.

In the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament, Avanesyan, ranked No 39, won against American Lauren Davis (6-4, 6-2).

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
• Sonay Kartal vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: saturday
• Coco Gauff vs. Moyuka Uchijima: saturday
• Iva Jovic vs. Jasmine Paolini: saturday
• Madison Keys (5) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-3, 6-0
• Maria Sakkari (29) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-0, 6-3
• Polina Kudermetova beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (20): 7-5, 6-2
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Magdalena Frech (30): 6-3, 7-5
• 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