Resurgent Kenin sets Andreescu third-round clash at Miami
Sofia Kenin beat Anhelina Kalinina 6-3, 6-4 on Friday evening. She’ll play Canadian Bianca Andreescu in the next round
Sofia Kenin US Open 2023 © AI / Reuters / Panoramic
American Sofia Kenin moved into the third round of the Miami Open by winning against Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, the No 28 seed, 6-3, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday evening.
The 2020 Australian Open champion and Roland-Garros runner-up reached as high as No 4 in the world before injuries sabotaged her progress.
Kenin, ranked No 164, will play Canadian Bianca Andreescu next. Andreescu holds a 2-1 edge in the pair’s tour-level head-to-head, which includes a win over Kenin in Miami in the second round in 2019.
The American, who dropped out of the top 400 last summer for a spell due to injuries, beat Australian Storm Hunter (6-0, 7-6 (5)) in the previous round of the Miami tournament.
Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):
- Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Magdalena Frech vs. Erika Andreeva
- Madison Brengle vs. Donna Vekic
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic
- Petra Kvitova vs. Linda Noskova
- Caroline Garcia vs. Sorana Cirstea: friday
- Madison Keys (19) beat Robin Montgomery (WC): 6-4, 6-4
- Barbora Krejcikova (16) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-3, 6-2
- Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ons Jabeur (4): 6-2, 6-2
- Marie Bouzkova (31) beat Anna Blinkova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Veronika Kudermetova (11): 6-4, 6-2
- Bianca Andreescu beat Maria Sakkari (7): 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova (17) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 6-4
- Karolina Muchova (Q) beat Lin Zhu (32): 6-4, 6-2
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (18) beat Taylor Townsend: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina (10) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Victoria Azarenka (14) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-3, 6-1
- Martina Trevisan (25) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Magda Linette (20) beat Evgeniya Rodina: 6-3, 6-4
- Claire Liu beat Julia Grabher (LL): 6-4, 6-3
- Coco Gauff (6) beat Rebecca Marino: 6-4, 6-3
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Tereza Martincova (Q): 7-6 (4), 0-6, 6-0
- Jelena Ostapenko (24) beat Mirjam Bjorklund (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Anastasia Potapova (27) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-1, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova (12) beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Katherine Sebov (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Danielle Collins (30) beat Viktoriya Tomova (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Petra Martic (29) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3
- Qinwen Zheng (23) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
- Elise Mertens beat Daria Kasatkina (8): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (21) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2
