US Open: Minnen beats Vickery in three sets, faces Kasatkina in third round

Belgian qualifier Greet Minnen edged out American qualifier Sachia Vickery 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the third round of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Thursday.

Minnen, ranked No 97, will play Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 13 seed, next. The Belgian is through to the round of 32 at a Grand Slam for the second time in her career – the first came at Flushing Meadows 2021.

The Belgian defeated American wildcard Venus Williams (6-1, 6-1) in the opening round of the Flushing Meadow tournament.

In the previous round, Vickery, ranked No 204, won against Croat Donna Vekic, the No 21 seed (2-6, 7-5, 6-2).

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New York (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44,700,000, most recent results first):

• Ons Jabeur (5) beat Linda Noskova: 7-6 (7), 4-6, 6-3
• Marie Bouzkova (31) beat Petra Martic: 6-1, 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina beat Sofia Kenin: 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Marketa Vondrousova (9) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 6-2
• Madison Keys (17) beat Yanina Wickmayer (LL): 6-1, 6-2
• Elina Svitolina (26) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (22) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-1, 6-3
• Clara Burel beat Karolina Pliskova (25): 6-4, 6-2
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Jodie Burrage: 6-3, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (14) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-3, 6-3
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Eva Lys (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Qinwen Zheng (23) beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
• Peyton Stearns beat Clara Tauson: 6-3, 6-0
• Katie Boulter beat Yafan Wang (Q): 5-7, 6-1, 6-4
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Petra Kvitova (11): 7-5, 7-6 (5)
• Jelena Ostapenko (20) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-3, 5-7, 7-5
• Jennifer Brady beat Magda Linette (24): 6-1, 2-6, 6-2
• Elena Rybakina vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Bernarda Pera beat Xiyu Wang: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Lin Zhu beat Victoria Azarenka (18): 6-3, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea (30) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 6-3, 6-4
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Daria Saville: 6-3, 6-4
• Karolina Muchova (10) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Rebeka Masarova: 7-6, 6-2
• Xinyu Wang beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Mirra Andreeva: 6-3, 6-2
• Belinda Bencic (15) beat Yuriko Miyazaki (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Kaja Juvan (Q) beat Lauren Davis: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3
• Taylor Townsend beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (19): 7-6 (1), 7-5
• Elise Mertens (32) beat Danielle Collins: 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-1
• Patricia Maria Tig vs. Jessica Pegula

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