Miami Open: Trevisan battles past Liu and into round of 16

Italian Martina Trevisan, the No 25 seed, moved into the last 16 of the Miami Open by edging out American Claire Liu 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday night.

Trevisan, ranked No 24, will play Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 24 seed, next.

The Italian beat Japanese qualifier Nao Hibino (6-4, 6-3) ahead of her victory.

In the previous rounds of the Miami tournament, Liu, ranked No 59, benefited from the abandonment of Czech Katerina Siniakova (3-6, 3-3) and won against Austrian lucky loser Julia Grabher (6-4, 6-3).

Miami WTA 1000, other third-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Marie Bouzkova vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Madison Keys
• Petra Kvitova vs. Donna Vekic
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Belinda Bencic
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Karolina Muchova
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Sofia Kenin
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Petra Martic vs. Elise Mertens
• Elena Rybakina vs. Paula Badosa: sunday
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Danielle Collins (30): 6-1, 7-6
• Magda Linette (20) beat Victoria Azarenka (14): 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-4
• Anastasia Potapova (27) beat Coco Gauff (6): 6-7 (8), 7-5, 6-2
• Qinwen Zheng (23) beat Liudmila Samsonova (12): 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Jelena Ostapenko beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (13): 6-2, 4-6, 6-3