Miami Open: Noskova dispatches Timofeeva to move into third round

No 26 seed Linda Noskova reached the third round of the Miami Open by defeating Russian qualifier Maria Timofeeva 6-4, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium.

Noskova, ranked No 31, will face the winner of the match between Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, and Italian Camila Giorgi next.

Timofeeva, ranked No 99, won against Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva (6-3, 6-3) in the previous round of the Miami tournament.

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

• Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
• Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Iga Swiatek vs. Camila Giorgi
• Naomi Osaka vs. Elina Svitolina
• Sorana Cirstea (19) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 6-1
• Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Claire Liu (Q): 6-0, 1-0 ret.
• Danielle Collins beat Anastasia Potapova (30): 6-2, 6-2
• Jasmine Paolini (12) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 7-6 (8), 7-5
• Jessica Pegula (5) beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 4-1 ret.
• Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Emiliana Arango (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (21) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-2, 6-1
• Oceane Dodin (LL) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (14) beat Donna Vekic: 6-3, 6-4
• 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