Miami Open: Putintseva makes third round
Yulia Putintseva defeated Liudmila Samsonova 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 on Thursday evening. She’ll play Belgian lucky loser Greet Minnen in the next round
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Kazakh Yulia Putintseva moved into the third round of the Miami Open by winning against Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 13 seed, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday evening.
Putintseva, ranked No 68, will play Belgian lucky loser Greet Minnen next.
The Kazakh edged out Spaniard Cristina Bucsa (6-2, 3-6, 6-4) 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):
- Iga Swiatek vs. Camila Giorgi
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
- Sloane Stephens vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Naomi Osaka vs. Elina Svitolina
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Danielle Collins
- Lin Zhu vs. Jessica Pegula
- Maria Timofeeva vs. Linda Noskova
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Claire Liu
- Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Emiliana Arango
- Donna Vekic vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Coco Gauff vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Paula Badosa vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Arantxa Rus vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Storm Hunter vs. Emma Navarro
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Katie Volynets
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Shelby Rogers
- Clara Tauson vs. Elena Rybakina
- Peyton Stearns vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Laura Siegemund vs. Jelena Ostapenko: thursday
- Daria Saville vs. Dayana Yastremska: thursday
- Diana Shnaider vs. Madison Keys: thursday
- 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 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
