Miami Open: Sakkari races into third round

Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 8 seed, won against Chinese Yue Yuan 6-2, 6-2 to reach the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday.

Sakkari, ranked No 9, will face the winner of the match between Australian Daria Saville and Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 28 seed, next.

Yuan, ranked No 37, defeated Russian Anna Blinkova (6-4, 6-2) 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):

• 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
• Laura Siegemund vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Daria Saville vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Diana Shnaider vs. Madison Keys
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Yulia Putintseva: thursday
• Anna Kalinskaya (22) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-2, 6-2
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Caroline Wozniacki: thursday
• 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