Indian Wells: Navarro beats Svitolina, scores tour-leading 17th win of the season
Emma Navarro beat Elina Svitolina 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 on Monday night. She’ll play Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, in the next round
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American Emma Navarro, the No 23 seed, reached the last 16 of the BNP Paribas Open by defeating Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 16 seed, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Monday night.
Navarro, ranked No 23, will face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, next. This will be the American’s first time in the fourth round at Indian Wells.
The win was Navarro’s 17th victory on the WTA Tour this year – the most by any player with world No 1 Iga Swiatek and Jelena Ostapenko just behind at 16 wins each (Swiatek is also alive in the tournament this week). Those wins include a title run in Hobart and semi-final appearances in Auckland and San Diego
In the previous round of the tournament, the 22-year-old American edged out another Ukrainian, Lesia Tsurenko (4-6, 7-5, 7-5).
Svitolina, ranked No 17, won against Katerina Siniakova (6-3, 2-6, 6-1) in the second round of the Indian Wells tournament.
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080):
- Maria Sakkari (9) beat Caroline Garcia (20): 6-3, 6-4
- Diane Parry beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 6-3
- Elise Mertens (24) beat Naomi Osaka: 7-5, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina (11) beat Sloane Stephens: 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka beat Emma Raducanu (WC): 6-3, 7-5
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Yue Yuan beat Caroline Dolehide: 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (22) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (12): 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Katie Volynets (WC): 6-2, 4-6, 6-0
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Angelique Kerber beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-4, 7-5
- Anastasia Potapova (28) beat Nadia Podoroska (LL): 6-1, 6-1
- Jasmine Paolini (13) beat Anna Kalinskaya (21): 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Yulia Putintseva beat Madison Keys (18): 6-4, 6-1
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Linda Noskova (26): 6-4, 6-0
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