Andreeva reaches US Open third round for the first time
The 18-year-old Russian will face American Taylor Townsend in the next round
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Russian teen and fifth seed Mirra Andreeva reached the third round of the US Open for the first time with a straight sets win over countrywoman Anastasia Potapova on Wednesday.
Andreeva won 6-1, 6-3 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York to achieve her best performance to date at the American Grand Slam.
The Russian, ranked No 5 in the world, will play American Taylor Townsend next.
Andreeva defeated American Alycia Parks (6-0, 6-1) in her first round match in New York.
In the previous round, Potapova, ranked No 45, beat China’s Lin Zhu (6-4, 4-6, 6-2).
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):
- Elise Mertens (19) beat Lulu Sun: 6-2, 6-3
- Priscilla Hon (Q) beat Liudmila Samsonova (17): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Taylor Townsend beat Jelena Ostapenko (25): 7-5, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina (9) beat Tereza Valentova (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (7)
- Barbora Krejcikova beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 6-2
- Jessica Pegula (4) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-1, 6-3
- Cristina Bucsa beat Alexandra Eala: 6-4, 6-3
- Victoria Azarenka beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-3
- Emma Navarro (10) beat Catherine McNally (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Emma Raducanu beat Janice Tjen (Q): 6-2, 6-1
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Maya Joint
- Donna Vekic vs. Coco Gauff
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Renata Zarazua vs. Diane Parry
- Anastasia Zakharova vs. Laura Siegemund
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Naomi Osaka
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Karolina Muchova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Peyton Stearns
- Zeynep Sonmez vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Suzan Lamens vs. Iga Swiatek
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Bondar
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Linda Noskova vs. Eva Lys
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Ann Li vs. Belinda Bencic
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Leylah Fernandez
- McCartney Kessler vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Iva Jovic vs. Jasmine Paolini
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