US Open: Azarenka makes third round

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