Miami Open: Putintseva edges past lucky loser Minnen to make last 16

Kazakh Yulia Putintseva edged out Belgian lucky loser Greet Minnen 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 to reach the last 16 of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium.

Putintseva, ranked No 68, will play the winner of the match between Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, the No 32 seed, and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, next.

The Kazakh edged out Spaniard Cristina Bucsa (6-2, 3-6, 6-4) and beat Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 13 seed (6-1, 4-6, 6-3) earlier in the tournament.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Minnen, ranked No 79, won against Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko (7-5, 6-1).

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

• Iga Swiatek vs. Linda Noskova
• Danielle Collins vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Caroline Garcia vs. Naomi Osaka
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Jessica Pegula
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Coco Gauff vs. Oceane Dodin
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Emma Navarro
• Katie Boulter (24) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (11): 6-2, 6-3
• Anna Kalinskaya (22) beat Jelena Ostapenko (9): 6-3, 6-1
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Aryna Sabalenka: sunday
• Elena Rybakina (4) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-4
• Madison Keys (17) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Maria Sakkari (8) beat Dayana Yastremska (28): 7-5, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka (27) beat Qinwen Zheng (7): 6-4, 7-5