Lucky loser Kartal takes out 16th seed Haddad Maia in Indian Wells
Sonay Kartal beat Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-2, 6-1 on Saturday night and will play Polina Kudermetova in the next round
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Lucky loser Sonay Kartal moved into the third round of the Indian Wells WTA 1000 by winning against Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 16 seed, 6-2, 6-1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.
Kartal, ranked No 83, will face Polina Kudermetova next. The Briton will rise to a new career-high ranking inside the world’s top 70 no matter what happens this week.
Ahead of her victory, Sonay Kartal beat American qualifier Varvara Lepchenko (7-6 (6), 6-2).
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
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Catherine McNally vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Belinda Bencic
- Elise Mertens vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Sofia Kenin
- Coco Gauff vs. Moyuka Uchijima: saturday
- Donna Vekic (19) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-3, 6-3
- Iva Jovic vs. Jasmine Paolini: saturday
- Madison Keys (5) 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
