Miami Open: Trevisan battles past Liu and into round of 16
Martina Trevisan edged out Claire Liu 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 on Saturday night. She’ll play Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 24 seed, in the next round
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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
