Miami Open: Swiatek through to third round, leaving two games to Giorgi

The bagel factory was closed today but not the winning machine. Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, reached the third round of the Miami Open by defeating Italian Camila Giorgi 6-1, 6-1 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday night, in 67 minutes.

Swiatek, ranked No 1, will face No 26 seed Linda Noskova next.

Swiatek, who won Indian Wells last week, confirms she’s a Masters 1000 specialist. With her 21st such victory having given up two or fewer games more than ten times at WTA-1000 events this decade, she’s the best at this exercise.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Giorgi, ranked No 107, won against Pole Magdalena Frech (6-4, 6-2).

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

• Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
• Caroline Garcia (23) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 5-2 ret.
• Naomi Osaka vs. Elina Svitolina: saturday
• Sorana Cirstea (19) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 6-1
• Linda Noskova beat Maria Timofeeva (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Claire Liu (Q): 6-0, 1-0 ret.
• Danielle Collins beat Anastasia Potapova (30): 6-2, 6-2
• Jasmine Paolini (12) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 7-6 (8), 7-5
• Jessica Pegula (5) beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 4-1 ret.
• Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Emiliana Arango (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (21) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-2, 6-1
• Oceane Dodin (LL) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (14) beat Donna Vekic: 6-3, 6-4
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Paula Badosa: 6-4, 6-3
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Nadia Podoroska (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Emma Navarro (20) beat Storm Hunter (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Xinyu Wang beat Veronika Kudermetova (16): 6-3, 6-2
• Elena Rybakina (4) beat Clara Tauson (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka (27) beat Peyton Stearns: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
• Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 ret.
• Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Dayana Yastremska (28) beat Daria Saville: 7-5, 7-5
• Madison Keys (17) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-2, 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Liudmila Samsonova (13): 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
• 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 (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