US Open: Rybakina sets up Raducanu clash in third round
Rybakina won against Tereza Valentova 6-3, 7-6 (7) in the second round
Elena Rybakina, Australian Open 2023
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Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 9 seed, won against Czech qualifier Tereza Valentova 6-3, 7-6 (7) to advance to the third round of the US Open in New York on Wednesday.
Rybakina, ranked No 10, will face British woman and former US Open champion Emma Raducanu next at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
The Kazakh defeated American wildcard Julieta Pareja (6-3, 6-0) ahead of her win today.
In the previous round, Valentova, ranked No 94, edged out Italian Lucia Bronzetti (6-3, 3-6, 6-4).
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):
- Taylor Townsend beat Jelena Ostapenko (25): 7-5, 6-1
- 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
- Iva Jovic vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Leylah Fernandez
- McCartney Kessler vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Elise Mertens vs. Lulu Sun
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Priscilla Hon
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