Miami Open: Third seed Pegula cruises into third round

American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, beat Canadian qualifier Katherine Sebov 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday.

Pegula, ranked No 3, will play the winner of the match between Bulgarian lucky loser Viktoriya Tomova and American Danielle Collins, the No 30 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Sebov, ranked No 172, edged out Czech Linda Fruhvirtova (6-2, 4-6, 6-4).

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

• Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Anna Blinkova
• Robin Montgomery vs. Madison Keys
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Karolina Muchova vs. Lin Zhu
• Caroline Garcia vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Ons Jabeur
• Shuai Zhang vs. Erika Andreeva
• Madison Brengle vs. Donna Vekic
• Petra Kvitova vs. Linda Noskova
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Taylor Townsend
• Sofia Kenin vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Maria Sakkari vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Camila Giorgi vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Nao Hibino vs. Martina Trevisan
• Magda Linette vs. Evgeniya Rodina
• Tereza Martincova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Julia Grabher vs. Claire Liu
• Rebecca Marino vs. Coco Gauff
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Mirjam Bjorklund: thursday
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Marta Kostyuk: thursday
• Liudmila Samsonova (12) beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Danielle Collins: thursday
• 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