Miami Open: Qualifier Townsend upsets Mertens to reach third round
Taylor Townsend won against Elise Mertens 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday evening. She’ll play the winner of the match between Dane qualifier Clara Tauson and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 4 seed, in the next round
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American qualifier Taylor Townsend moved into the third round of the Miami Open by defeating Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 25 seed, 6-2, 6-2 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday evening.
Townsend, ranked No 72, will face the winner of the match between Dane qualifier Clara Tauson and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 4 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the American edged out Italian Lucia Bronzetti (3-6, 6-3, 6-4).
Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):
- Clara Tauson vs. Elena Rybakina
- Paula Badosa vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Danielle Collins
- Sloane Stephens vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Claire Liu
- Naomi Osaka vs. Elina Svitolina
- Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Arantxa Rus vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Coco Gauff vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Lin Zhu vs. Jessica Pegula
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Emiliana Arango
- Storm Hunter vs. Emma Navarro
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Katie Volynets
- Donna Vekic vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Shelby Rogers
- Maria Timofeeva vs. Linda Noskova
- Iga Swiatek vs. Camila Giorgi
- Peyton Stearns vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Daria Saville vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Diana Shnaider vs. Madison Keys
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Laura Siegemund vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Maria Sakkari vs. Yue Yuan
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Caroline Wozniacki
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Greet Minnen
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Xiyu Wang
- Diane Parry vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Katie Boulter (24) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (WC): 7-6 (5), 1-0 ret.
