Indian Wells: Mertens books spot in third round

Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 24 seed, defeated China’s Xinyu Wang 6-1, 6-4 to move into the third round of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday evening.

Mertens, ranked No 28, will face the winner of the match between Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 14 seed, and Japanese Naomi Osaka next.

In the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament, Wang, ranked No 42, won against Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (6-0, 6-4).

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):

• Qinwen Zheng vs. Yue Yuan
• Peyton Stearns vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Emma Navarro
• Elina Svitolina vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Naomi Osaka
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Sloane Stephens
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Jessica Pegula vs. Anna Blinkova: saturday
• Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova: saturday
• Diana Shnaider vs. Maria Sakkari: saturday
• Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Dayana Yastremska (30): 4-0 ret.
• Diane Parry beat Leylah Fernandez (29): 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Clara Burel: 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Anhelina Kalinina (32): 6-3, 6-4
• Daria Kasatkina (11) beat Oceane Dodin: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Madison Keys (18) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
• Nadia Podoroska (LL) beat Kayla Day (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Linda Noskova (26) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-3, 7-5
• Anna Kalinskaya (21) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
• Katie Volynets (WC) beat Ons Jabeur (6): 6-4, 6-4
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Rebecca Sramkova (Q): 7-5, 6-2
• Anastasia Potapova (28) beat Marie Bouzkova: 7-5, 6-1
• Jasmine Paolini (13) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-3
• Marta Kostyuk (31) beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Donna Vekic (25): 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Veronika Kudermetova (17) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-1, 7-5
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Danielle Collins: 6-3, 6-0
• Marketa Vondrousova (7) beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-0, 6-2
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (22) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Angelique Kerber beat Jelena Ostapenko (10): 5-7, 6-3, 6-3
• Yulia Putintseva beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (15): 7-5, 6-1