US Open: Zheng ends Kanepi’s run, into third round

Qinwen Zheng, the No 23 seed, reached the third round of the US Open, going the distance against Estonian Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Thursday.

Zheng, ranked No 23, will play the winner of the match between German qualifier Eva Lys and Italian Lucia Bronzetti next. In the previous round of the US Open, the 20-year-old Chinese player beat Argentinian Nadia Podoroska (6-1, 6-0).

Kanepi, ranked No 133, defeated Barbora Strycova (6-4, 6-4) in the previous round of the Flushing Meadow tournament.

New York (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000, most recent results first):

• Patricia Maria Tig vs. Jessica Pegula
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Sofia Kenin
• Greet Minnen vs. Sachia Vickery
• Ons Jabeur vs. Linda Noskova
• Petra Martic vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Elina Svitolina vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Madison Keys
• Jodie Burrage vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Martina Trevisan vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Clara Burel
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Eva Lys vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Peyton Stearns beat Clara Tauson: 6-3, 6-0
• Yafan Wang vs. Katie Boulter: thursday
• 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