Miami Open: Alexandrova beats Vekic to make third round

Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 14 seed, moved into the third round of the Miami Open by defeating Croat Donna Vekic 6-3, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday night.

Alexandrova, ranked No 16, will play the winner of the match between Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the No 21 seed, and American Shelby Rogers next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Vekic, ranked No 34, won against Karolina Pliskova (6-4, 2-6, 6-2).

Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):

• Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Danielle Collins
• Naomi Osaka vs. Elina Svitolina
• Maria Timofeeva vs. Linda Noskova
• Lin Zhu vs. Jessica Pegula
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Emiliana Arango
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Claire Liu
• Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Sloane Stephens vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Iga Swiatek vs. Camila Giorgi
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Shelby Rogers: friday
• Arantxa Rus vs. Oceane Dodin: friday
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Katie Volynets: friday
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Paula Badosa: 6-4, 6-3
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Nadia Podoroska (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Emma Navarro (20) beat Storm Hunter (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Xinyu Wang beat Veronika Kudermetova (16): 6-3, 6-2
• Elena Rybakina (4) beat Clara Tauson (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka (27) beat Peyton Stearns: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
• Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 ret.
• Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Dayana Yastremska (28) beat Daria Saville: 7-5, 7-5
• Madison Keys (17) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-2, 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Liudmila Samsonova (13): 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
• Maria Sakkari (8) beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-2
• Anna Kalinskaya (22) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-2, 6-2
• Anhelina Kalinina (32) beat Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 5-7, 7-5, 6-4
• Greet Minnen (LL) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 7-5, 6-1
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (11) beat Diane Parry: 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Katie Boulter (24) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (WC): 7-6 (5), 1-0 ret.
• Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Elise Mertens (25): 6-2, 6-2