US Open: Azarenka makes third round
Victoria Azarenka defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday evening

Belarusian Victoria Azarenka beat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the third round of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday evening.
Azarenka, ranked No 133 and a runner-up in 2020, will face the winner of the match between American Jessica Pegula, the No 4 seed, and Russian Anna Blinkova next.
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90.000.000, most recent results first):
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Suzan Lamens vs. Iga Swiatek
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Anastasia Zakharova vs. Laura Siegemund
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Bondar
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Maya Joint
- Donna Vekic vs. Coco Gauff
- Magdalena Frech vs. Peyton Stearns
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Naomi Osaka
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Karolina Muchova
- Linda Noskova vs. Eva Lys
- Zeynep Sonmez vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Renata Zarazua vs. Diane Parry
- Iva Jovic vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Ann Li vs. Belinda Bencic
- McCartney Kessler vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Priscilla Hon
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Taylor Townsend
- Elise Mertens vs. Lulu Sun
- Elena Rybakina vs. Tereza Valentova
- Jessica Pegula vs. Anna Blinkova
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Alexandra Eala
- Emma Navarro (10) beat Catherine McNally (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Emma Raducanu beat Janice Tjen (Q): 6-2, 6-1