Kvitova sails past Czech teen Noskova in Miami

No 15 seed Petra Kvitova advanced to the third round of the Miami Open by defeating 18-year-old Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-0 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday night.

Kvitova, ranked No 12, will face the winner of the match between American Madison Brengle and Croat Donna Vekic, the No 22 seed, next.

Noskova, ranked No 51, won against Italian Lucia Bronzetti (6-3, 6-4) in the previous round of the Miami tournament.

The former Roland-Garros junior champion has had an excellent year on tour, reaching the final at Adelaide (with two Top 10 wins) and winning 9 of 14 matches to climb to No 51 in the WTA rankings.

Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic
• Magdalena Frech vs. Erika Andreeva
• Madison Brengle vs. Donna Vekic: friday
• Sorana Cirstea beat Caroline Garcia (5): 6-2, 6-3
• Sofia Kenin beat Anhelina Kalinina (28): 6-3, 6-4
• 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

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