Miami Open: Defending champion Collins reaches third round

American Danielle Collins, the No 14 seed and defending champion, reached the third round of the Miami Open by winning against Romanian Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 7-6 (3) at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday night.

Collins, ranked No 15, will face Swiss qualifier Rebeka Masarova next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Cirstea, ranked No 101, beat Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (6-3, 7-6 (5)).

Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):

• Madison Keys vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Mayar Sherif
• Belinda Bencic vs. Elina Svitolina
• Karolina Muchova vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Clara Tauson vs. Julia Grabher
• Bernarda Pera vs. Jessica Pegula
• McCartney Kessler vs. Linda Noskova
• Elise Mertens vs. Peyton Stearns
• Victoria Mboko vs. Paula Badosa
• Alexandra Eala vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Emma Navarro vs. Emma Raducanu
• Caroline Garcia vs. Iga Swiatek
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Diana Shnaider vs. Anna Blinkova
• Naomi Osaka beat Liudmila Samsonova (24): 6-2, 6-4
• Linda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (16): 6-0, 6-2
• Rebeka Masarova beat Donna Vekic (21): 6-1, 6-3
• Hailey Baptiste (WC) beat Daria Kasatkina (12): 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Maria Sakkari (28) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• Ons Jabeur (31) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Yulia Putintseva (19): 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-1
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-0
• Magda Linette beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (18): 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-0, 6-0
• Leylah Fernandez (26) beat Alycia Parks: 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Elena Rybakina (7): 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
• Jasmine Paolini (6) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-4, 6-4
• Qinwen Zheng (9) beat Lauren Davis: 6-1, 7-5
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Magdalena Frech (29): 6-4, 6-4