Madrid Open: Svitolina brushes aside Kartal to power into third round
Elina Svitolina beat Sonay Kartal 6-3, 6-1 on Friday and will face either Kazakh Elena Rybakina or Bianca Andreescu in the next round
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Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 17 seed, won against Sonay Kartal 6-3, 6-1 to reach the third round of the Madrid Open at the Caja Mágica.
Svitolina, ranked No 17, will play the winner of the match between Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 10 seed, and Canadian Bianca Andreescu next.
In the previous round of the Madrid tournament, Kartal, ranked No 60, beat Romanian Jaqueline Cristian (6-2, 7-5).
Madrid WTA 1000, other second-round results (Caja Mágica, clay, EUR 7.854.000, most recent results first):
- Elena Rybakina vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Jessica Pegula vs. Eva Lys
- Emma Raducanu vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Rebeka Masarova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Qinwen Zheng: friday
- Camila Osorio vs. Elise Mertens: friday
- Sofia Kenin (32) beat Lulu Sun: 6-3, 6-2
- Peyton Stearns vs. Amanda Anisimova: friday
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (21) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-3, 6-4
- Moyuka Uchijima beat Ons Jabeur (26): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Anna Blinkova (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Jasmine Paolini (6) beat Katie Boulter: 6-1, 6-2
- Maria Sakkari beat Magda Linette (29): 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Cristina Bucsa (LL): 4-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5
- Daria Kasatkina (14) beat Alycia Parks: 6-2, 7-5
- Coco Gauff (4) beat Dayana Yastremska: 0-6, 6-2, 7-5
- Madison Keys (5) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-4, 6-3
- Ann Li beat Leylah Fernandez (25): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto (LL): 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Anastasija Sevastova beat Jelena Ostapenko (23): 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Alexandra Eala (WC): 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Linda Noskova (31) beat Maria Lourdes Carle (Q): 7-5, 6-1
- Diana Shnaider (13) beat Katie Volynets: 6-1, 6-2
- Emma Navarro (11) beat Maya Joint (Q): 7-5, 7-5
- Mirra Andreeva (7) beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-3, 6-4
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (16) beat Bernarda Pera (LL): 2-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Anna Kalinskaya (30) beat Diane Parry (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Donna Vekic (19) beat Hailey Baptiste (WC): 6-4, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova (18) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-4, 6-4
- Magdalena Frech (27) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Belinda Bencic beat Clara Tauson (20): 7-5, 7-5
