Andreeva reaches US Open third round for the first time

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.

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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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