Indian Wells WTA 1000: Mertens advances to third round
Elise Mertens won against Kimberly Birrell 6-4, 7-5 on Saturday and will face Madison Keys, the No 5 seed, in the next round
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Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 28 seed, won against Australian qualifier Kimberly Birrell 6-4, 7-5 to move into the third round of the Indian Wells WTA 1000 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.
Mertens, ranked No 28, will face American Madison Keys, the No 5 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament, Birrell, ranked No 76, defeated Swiss qualifier Viktorija Golubic (6-4, 6-4).
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):
- Emma Navarro vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. McCartney Kessler
- Alycia Parks vs. Diana Shnaider
- Catherine McNally vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Belinda Bencic
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Sofia Kenin
- Sonay Kartal (LL) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (16): 6-2, 6-1
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4)
- Donna Vekic (19) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-3, 6-3
- Jasmine Paolini (6) beat Iva Jovic (WC): 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-3
- Madison Keys beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-3, 6-0
- Maria Sakkari (29) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-0, 6-3
- Polina Kudermetova beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (20): 7-5, 6-2
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Magdalena Frech (30): 6-3, 7-5
- Qinwen Zheng (8) beat Victoria Azarenka: 6-3, 6-4
- Danielle Collins (14) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-4
- Mirra Andreeva (9) beat Varvara Gracheva: 7-5, 6-4
- Elina Svitolina (23) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-1, 6-7 (8), 6-3
- Jessica Pegula (4) beat Magda Linette: 6-4, 6-2
- Xinyu Wang beat Jelena Ostapenko (26): 6-4, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Caroline Garcia: 6-2, 6-0
- Caroline Dolehide (WC) beat Eva Lys (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Lulu Sun beat Linda Noskova (31): 6-1, 6-4
- Dayana Yastremska beat Ons Jabeur (32): 6-3, 6-1
- Clara Tauson (22) beat Camila Osorio: 7-6 (3), 7-5
- Katerina Siniakova beat Yulia Putintseva (21): 6-2, 6-2
- Karolina Muchova (15) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk (18) beat Robin Montgomery (WC): 6-1, 6-3
- Katie Boulter (25) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-0
- Elena Rybakina (7) beat Suzan Lamens: 6-3, 6-3
